Clarion 1972-01-24 Vol 47 No 08

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You must register by: Where to go/ Residency You must be
Can you
State register
primary election general election write/phone requirement 18 by absentee
Ala. Deadline: April 21 I County board 1 yr. in state; 6 mos.
October 27# in county; 3 mos. in Date of election No
Primary: May 2# (P) in county seat precinct
Alaska Deadline: August 7 October 23 Contact Lt. Gov. 1 yr. in state; 30 days Nov. 7 for general Yes
Primary: August 22 in Juneau in precinct Aug. 22 for primary
Ariz. Deadline: July 12 September 18 County recorder or 1 yr. in state; 30 days Nov. 6 for general Yes
Primary: September 12 justice of the peace in precinct , Sept. 11 fQr primary
Ark. Deadline: June 6 County clerk 12 mos. in state; 6 mos. Nov. 6 for general
Primary: June 27 October 17 in county seat in county; 1 mo. in June 26 for primary No
precinct
Calif. Deadline: April 13 September 14 County clerk or 90 days in state and Nov. 6 for general
Primary: June 6 (P) registrar of voters county; 54 in precinct June 5 for primary Yes
Colo. PDreiamdalirnye:: SAeupgteumstb 1e1r 12 October 6 ECloeucntitoyn c Cleormk;m Disesniovne r 332 m doasy. si nin s tparteec;i nct NSeopvt.. 71 2f ofro rg epnreimraal ry Yes
Conn. Nbyo mcoinna vteino tniso nm ade October 14 tToowwnn crleegrkis trar or 6 mos. in town Nov. 6' No
Del. Deadline: May 23 Dept. of Elections 1 yr. in state; 3 mos. in Nov. 7 for
Primary: June 13 October 21 in county seat county; 30 days, both elections No
precinct
D.C. D.C. board of No durational
,
No primary October 7 elections requirements Nov. 7 Yes
Fla. Deadline: Feb. 12; primary: County supervisor of 1 yr. in state; Nov. 6* for general
Mar. 14 (Pres. only). Dead- October 7 elections in county seat 6 mos. in county March 13* or Sept. 13*, No
line: Aug. 12: Prim.: Sept. 12 primaries
Ga. Deadline: June 19 County registrar 1 yr. in state; Nov. 7* for general
Primary: August 8 September 18 in county seat 6 mos. in county; Aug. 8* for primaries Yes
90 days in municipality
Hawaii Deadline: August 23 October 12 County clerk in
1 yr. in state
Nov. 6 for general
Primary: October 7 county seat Oct. 6 for primary Yes
Idaho Deadline: August 5 November 4 Coun ty clerk in 6 mos. in state; Nov. 7 for general
Primary: August 8 county seat 30 days in county Aug. 8 for primary Yes
Ill. In doubt In doubt County clerk or
election commissioner 6 mos. in state Nov. 7 Yes
Ind. Deadline: April 3 Clerk of circuit court 6 mos. in state; Nov. 7 for general
Primary: May 2 (P) October 9 or bd. of registration 60 days in township; May 2 for primary Yes
30 days in precinct
Iowa Deadline: May 27 October 28 City clerk or 6 mos. in state; Nov. 7 for general
Primary: June 6 county auditor 60 days in county June 6 for primary Yes
Kans. Deadline: July 11 October 17 County clerk or county 6 mos. in state; Nov. 6 for general
Primary: August 1 election commissioner 30 days in town or ward and primary Yes
Ky. Deadline: March 28 September 9 County clerk, bd. of 1 yr. in state; 6 mos. in Nov. 7 for general
Primary: May 23 registration in cities county; 60 days, May 23 for primary No
precinct ,
1 yr. in state;
La. Deadline: July 20 October 7 Nov. 7 for general
Primary: August 19 Parish registrar 6 mos. in county; Aug. 19 for primary No
3 mos. in precinct
Maine Deadline: June 9 to 16 Varies from Oct Registrar of voters 6 mos. in state; Nov. 7 for general
Primary: June 19# 27 to Nov. 6 or bd. of registration 3 mos. in county June 19 for primary Yes
Jog dov#n to the polls,
exercise your right to vote
by w.e. Wahlin
How about it, have you ,been contem­plating
getting into shape and exer­cising
- exercising your right to vote,
that is?
If you are at least eighteen years
old by election day or the day after,
try considering the responsibility of
relating your personal opinion to the
ballot box and your community.
Are you content tQ just sit and criti­cize
St. Paul's supe'r-mayor and his
wheeling-dealing ta'ctics, or would you
like tQ have some say in how .the city
is run? Perhaps you wholeheartedly
support 'Clark Kent' McCarty in his
mayormobile, would yQU cllTe to prQve
it by re-electing him to an .other term?
How ,about the sizzling h.ot race f.or
township treasurer back home, interested
in helping to determine the .outcome?
Possibly you're thinking your VQte
isn't that important. Have you ever ex­amined
the expenditures .of candidates
for public .office? Better yet, have you
ever asked a candida,te how imp.ortant
your vote is? Your vote is important ...
to the c.ountry, to the state, to the can­didate,
but most of all, to you. If you
care about the Hfe .of your community
and .others ,around you, yQur concern
will be voiced in the vote you cast.
Let's be honest, there is a lot to care
about. Take a look around. Are you will­ingto
become a pa'rt of the solutions
to the problems and troubles that face
us today? If you are, there are some im­portant
facts concerning voter eligi-bility
that you should become acquainted
with.
To be eligible to vote you must be
registered in the precinct .or community
where you maintain your permanent
address. Cities of over ten thousand
residents are by law compelled to main­tain
permanent voter registration files.
This means that in st. Paul you must be
registered to vote within your precinct
at least 'twenty days before any election.
Smaller cities of less than ten thousand
usually require y.oU to register at the
time you place your vote and not pre­vious
to the time of voting.
On either .occasion yQU must s'wear
under .oath that you have ,been a 'res­ident
of tha,t community ,for the speci­fied
number .of days and that you are
qualified as a citizen to vote. As a stu­dent
at Bethel you may choose to reg­ister
and vote in all of the city and pre­cinct
elections if you live within the
houndaries of St. Paul and decide your
perm,anent address is here.
However, if you live in Center, Idaho,
Pascal, Eagle, or Falcon Manors, yQur
registration would have to be within
the village .of Falcon Heights. Anyone
interested in this possibility may re­ceive
additional information by calling
the Village Office, l.ocatedat 1644 West
Larpenteur, at 644-5050.
New Dorm students. wishing to par­ticipate
in elections and considering the
New Dorm as their permanent residence
must register within the jurisdiction of
Arden Hills. The Village Office in Arden
Hills is located at 1450 West Highway
[is~J' CAeCA"" , .. FASTER SERVICE
96 and my be reached by calling 633-
5676.
Two important factors to remember
are: you must have been a resident of
the precinct you wish to vote in for at
least 30 days prior to the election; and
you may declare yourself as having
only one permanent address. If you
have difficulty determining a perman­ent
address, the Voter Registraton Bur­eau
suggests you 'consider the precinct
you reside and sleep in as your perma­nent
address. Remember, you may con­sider
your home before college as your
permanent address and exercise your
voting privilege there.
For all students of Bethel College
interested in participating in elections
in st. Paul, registrars from the St. Paul
Voter Registration Bureau 'will be on
campus Monday, Feb. 7, ,from 8:30 to 3:30
to register all eligible voters for the up­coming
city and national elections. Reg­istraton
is required only once, provid­ing
a person does not change his name,
his address, or fail to vote in the nat­ional
election every four years.
The campaign to register voters at
Bethel has been undertaken by the Stu~
dent Senate in cooperation with the
Minnesota Youth Citizenship Fund. To
celebrate the successful completion of
the membership drive throughout the
Twin City area, a rock festiv,al has been
planned by the M.Y.C.F. for all voters
eighteen to twentY-Qne years of age who
registered during the drive. Watch for
posters explaining the location and date
of the festival.
Good only at
~ JiJIiit Falcon Heights
Pizza Hut
Good thru Jan. 24-Jan. 3 I
LIMIT ONE PIZZA BUCK
PER LARGE PIZZA
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Founders Week geared for the individual
"By My Spirit" will be the theme of
Bethel Founders Week, Jan. 31 through
Feb. 4, with the emphasis, 'More than
you are - All that He (God) planned
(for you).'
The conference .annually draws more
than one thousand guests from across
the nation and Canada for its annual
seminars, noting the passing of another
year of Bethel's history.
"This year Founders Week is going
to be entirely geared to enrich our lives
as individuals," said Mr. Harold Christ­enson,
Assistant Vice President of the
college, director of Church Relations,
and Founders Week General Chairman.
"It will have as its goal to share with you
from a number of dif,ferent ways those
precepts and ideas that will deepen your
spiritual commitment and .assist you in
knowing and understanding yourself."
The week will kick off with a Histori­cal
Banquet Monday evening at 6:30.
Speaker at the meeting will be Dr. Ed­mund
P. Clowney, President of Westmin­ster
Theological Seminary and original
contributor to Eutychus in Christianity
Today.
Dr. William E. Hulme, professor of
pastoral counselling at Luther Seminary,
will lead the devotional hour each day
from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. He will speak on
the subject of God working in our per­sonal
lives. We will be seeing this
through the book of Job. His book on
Job entitled, "Dialogue in Despair" is
a real classic.
The daily worship hour, from 11:15
to 12:15, will be led by Dr. D. Stuart
Briscoe. Born and educated in England,
Dr. Briscoe was instrumental in initia­ting
youth outreach in England by es­tablishing
"coffee-bar" ev.angelism.
Bitble studies led by Bethel Faculty
members will be a morning feature Tues­day
through Thursday, from 8:30 to 9:30.
The women's session will be held at
this same time, and will include such
speakers as Dr. Briscoe, Dr. P. H. Augus­tine,
well known lecturer in universities
and cities throughout the U.S. on emo­tional
development of youth and marital.
problems in America, and Ethel Bar­ret,
nationally known speaker, dramatic
reader and "story-teller".
The single in-depth study each after­noon
from 2 to 4:30 with audience inter­action
is a new feature in the FounderS'
Week format. Tuesday and Thursday
afternoons will be devoted to devotional
aspects of the week's emphasis with Dr.
Edmund P. Clowney speaking Tuesday
on "The Holy Spirit in the Life of the
Church", and Dr. Donald BIoesch of
Dubuque ·Theological Seminary on
Thursday, speaking on "The Crisis of
Piety". Wednesday will be Mr. Charles
(Tremendous) Jones, a nationally known
Christian businessman, on the subject
of how to motivate ourselves and how to
enrich the lives of others by motivation.
Mr. Alec MacKenzie, Management Con­sultant,
Chappaqua, N. Y., will lead the
Friday session on "Time-the Christian
Leader's Most Critical Resource".
The evening sessions are open to the
public and will be devoted to great in­spirational
rallies on different phases
of our spiritual ministries. In addition
to Clowney, Augustine, and Barrett men­tioned
before, the sessions will feature
Congressman John B. Anderson, third
ranking Republican leader in the U. S.
Congress and author of the book "Be­tween
Two Worlds", a warm, spirited
layman who shares his faith most ably,
and Rev. William Pannel, Vice-president
and director of Campus Ministries for
Tom Skinner Associates, former associ­ate
\\lice pl.1esident . for Youth For Christ
International, and author of My Friend,
the Enemy.
With such a broad field of able speak­ers,
this Founders Week may be one of
the most enriching ever.
MPIRG seeks to further student interests
by Teri James
The abuse and waste of our environ­ment
has caused great concern among
many of us. At times it seems that our
protestations against pollution or other
activities which upset ecological cycles
are unheard by those who have the pow­er
to enforce corrective legislation. One
way to gain the attention of legislators
is to become involved in the Minnesota
Public Interest Research G r 0 u p
(MPIRG). MPIRG isa student financed
and ·controlled group of scientists, re­searchers,
and lawyers which represents
over 80,000 students on nineteen Minne­sota
college and university campuses.
Elected student representatives from
those schools make up the board of
directors. MPIRG studies and advises
reforms that will improve environmental
conditions.
MPIRG has already been a'ble to ob­tain
new snowmobile regulations. The
new regulations require that by Febru-.
ary 1, 1974, no snowmobile manufac­tured
for sale in Minnesota may produce
more than 73 decibels of sound measured
at 50 feet. Charles K. Dayton, legal di­rector
of MPIRG, points out that at the
present time the noise level of most
snowmobiles is enough to cause hearing
damage and that drivers should wear
ear plugs. The new regulations would
not only keep the noise level down, but
would also prohibit alteration of any
snowmobile >that would increase its speed
and power, through removal of mufflers.
Another issue that MPIRG is research­ing
is the timber cutting within the
Boundary Waters Canoe Area. This area
is the largest virgin wilderness left east
of the Rockies. MPIRG objects to the
timber cutting 'because the Boundary Wa­ters
Canoe Area is a popular place for
tourists, tourism being the major indus­try
in northern Minnesota. Also, 90
percent of the timber will only be used
for pulpwood. Susan Kline, MPIRG staff
member, adds that there is already a
surplus of pulpwood in Minnesota and
the timber from this area is not need­ed.
MPIRG has been .active in investig.a­ting
the differences of !food prices
throughout the Twin Cities, the com­pliance
of industries to the 1899 Refuse
Act which requires permits before an
industry can dump materials into navi­gable
waters, and the new Minnesota
Air Implementation Plan.
In order to continue the various
studies, MPIRG must be funded by
those colleges that are members. Bethel
College can become a member of MPIRG
by adding only $3.00 to each student's
present fees. The money would con­tr~
bute to research being done and
Bethel would benefit from the reforms
carried out.
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by Bob Miko
"Marriage is the 'school' of community, created 'by God, in
which man can 'learn' that he cannot live as an individual,
but only in so far as he is bound up with the other, as also
that each one of us has received his or her own life from such
a connection between two persons."
-Emil Brunner, The Divine Imperative.
As I look forward to my forthcoming marriage, January
29, I reflect on many things. My mind swirls like a kaleido­scope
bringing to the surface doubts, hopes, dreams, anger.
love, fear and Jan.
I see my life unfolding like a flower in the mist of a warm
spring morning. I long to open myself - to give without fear
of rejection .... to receive without feeling as if someone
feels sorry for me.
To know someone . . . . "Know" is an interesting word.
It's not an assent to a proposition - it'S' a relationship. Like
"eternal ' life" is not expressing a magnitude but a quality of
life.
"I know in whom I believe."
The sexual union is spoken of as knowing.
Whore .and prostitute are used to describe our unfaithful­ness
to our Groom.
But in the atmosphere that prevails today, the sexual union
has become a bodily function, not unlike that of relieving one's
self at the toilet.
The "experts" tell us that we need to seek release from our
"bodily desires", by masturbation (I'm using "masturbation"
to mean - sexual release other than the sexual union that
takes place in marriage, i.e., self-masturbation, mutual mas­turbation
between male-male, female-female, and male­female).
Much more rich is our Creator's norm for sex. We have
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brutally ripped sex out of the context in which God intended
- distorting it for our own purposes. What is supposed to be
an out-going, opening experience between two people in a
troth relationship, has become a selfish "I" orientated bodily
function.
And we as "Christians" miss the whole concept of what
God intended sex to be when we ask questions like "How f.ar
is too far?" and "Is petting wrong?". We look at the act -
completely out of context of totality of life.
I struggled for a long time 'with these two questions. Much
to my own frustration, I assure you. I would cut up the body
into areas of "on limits" - "off limits" and figure out ways
to make the "on limits" areas as responsive as the "off limits"
areas. I was doing -and struggling with the same questions
as was the person who was walking in the "dark" and I was
coming up with the same "answers."
I asked some new questions, "Is this what Jesus went through
when he was my age?" "Did He ask the same questions?" "Did
He have sex drives that needed to be released?" "Was Jesus
married?"
There is a freedom in walking in the light of the truth. I
found that I was distorting God's good creation by my do's and
don'ts. This wasn't how God wanted me to live. I am free from
the law - so why make other laws to bind me? What makes
me want a set of rules and regulations to live by? Is it because
I was alfraid to walk with God? To live to His glory?
I used to think that sex is "ok" if you "love" one another.
But as I grew older I saw what "love" was. Love isn't a feeling
of intense desire, (I love me and I want you or I love my car).
Love is a word that demands action, kinda' like "faith without
works is dead," so love without action is nothing (God so
loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son ... ).
When I found myself saying "I love you, Jan," I was saying,
"Jan, I want to share my life with you, to have you to talk
to and pray with. I will be faithful to you." I never asked· Jan to
marry me, she just said, "I love you, too."
Now as I look back on our relationship I can see how Jan
and I saw the danger in being involved sexually before mar­riage.
We saw others mistake sexual desire for love. In others
we watched love turn to lust, destroying the relationship they
once had. We had to decide where our relationship was going
to go. We chose to follow where the Lord would lead us, pray­ing
together about our problems, hopes and desires. It's been
a most interesting courtship going from Berkeley California,
through Fargo, North Dakota, around the Twin Cities, and
finally ending in marriage in Lorraine, Kansas. Throughout
our relationship we have seen God in action working to bring
us to this point in our lives.
Thank you Lord for providing for our daily needs.
Glasses Contact Lenses
ELWOOD CARLSON
Optician
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272 Lowry Medical Arts
St. Paul, Minn. 55102
TO' view the American system Df pDlitics frDm Dutside the
system is to' study an idealistic fDrm Df peDple regulatiDn. TO'
view the American system Df pDlitics frDm within the system
is to' study a chaotic fDrm of peDple regulatiDn.
In NDvember Df this year, 1972, the citizens Df (suppDsedly)
the greatest natiDn Dn earth will elect the man whO' they
believe will UphDld the American principles as they, the citi­zens,
view them. BefDre that electiDn date "rDlls arDund",
it is the duty Df every vDter to' examine, CDmpare, then judge
each Df the presidential candidates as to' their merits. This
prDcedure is essential if the American peDple are to' elect a
man qualified to' lead this natiDn during the ensuing fDur
years.
In reviewing each Df the candidates, the public is fDrced
to' submit itself to' the American system Df mass media. In
dDing this they can Dften be misled in their judgments. Walter
Lippmann has written, "The notiDn that public DpiniDn can
and will decide all issues is in appearance very demDcratic.
In practice it undermines and destrDYs demDcratic gDvern­ment.
FDr when everybDdy is suppDsed to' have a judgment
abDut everything, nDbDdy in fact is gDing to' knDw much abDut
anything .... The Dnly effect Df inviting everybDdy to' judge
every public questiDn is to' cDnfuse everybDdy abDut every­thing."
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Jan. 25- Siring Quartet frDm MinnesDta Orchestra
8 p.m. at Augsburg CDllege
''':'Jan. 31-WDDdwind Quintet frDm MinnesDta Orchestra
8 p.m. at Augsburg CDllege
'·":'Jan. 25-MinnesDta Orchestra WDDdwind Quintet
8 p.m. at O'Shaughnessy EducatiDnal Center Audi­tDrium
':':'Jan. 25- Macalester TriO' CDncert
8 p.m. at Macalester CDllege
Jan. 30-Ivan MDravec, pianist
8 p.m. at O'Shaughnessy
·:":'Jan. 20-23, 28-30--Edyth Bush Theater-"YDu're a GDDd
Man Charlie BrDwn"
8 p.m. at Hamline University
':':'Jan. 17-March 25-Friars Dinner Theater­"
HellO', DDlly"
':":'Jan. 23-GDrdDn LightfDDt
7 and 10 p.m. at O'Shaughnessy
':·Feb. 7-Bethel CDllege ChDir HDmecDming CDncert
8 p.m. at Bethel Seminary Chapel
Tickets $1.00, $2.00
Mr. Lippmann is hinting very strDngly that in this "dem­Dcratic"
sDciety we, in actuality, are nDt qualified to' make
decisiDns Dn public questiDns. It wDuld appear that we, the
American peDple, are putting Durselves in dDuble jeDpardy.
First, we are nDt qualified to' judge, yet we must. Then, the
perSDn we elect is nDt qualified to' "rule," yet we must give
him the respDnsibility.
SO' what dO' we dD? DO' we stand arDund in Dur blindness
and be led dDwn the path to' "destructiDn"? This seems to'
be the path we are headed Dn, because peDple will nDt evalu­ate
that which they read and hear. PeDple dDn't seem to' realize
that the same infDrmatiDn can be repDrted in different ways.
Take, fDr an example, pDll results. The Republicans
claim that they hDld 28 states with 243 electDral vDtes. They
claim that the DemDcrats hDld 11 states with 93 electDral vDtes.
Nine states and 176 electDral vDtes still lie undecided at this
time.
When turning to' the DemDcratic pDll, we find that they
claim 19 states and 216 electDral vDtes. They cDncede 17 states
and 102 electDral vDtes to' the Republicans. They say that 12
states and 194 electDral vDtes are still "up fDr grabs."
This is the same infDrmatiDn, interpreted twO' entirely
different ways, by thDse whO' will prDfit frDm the result. It
can be dDne nDt Dnly with statistical infDrmatiDn, but alsO'
with subjective repDrting.
This is why I am gDing to' take a (hDpefully) objective IDDk
at each Df the presidential candidates and view their merits.
I hDpe to' mDtivate YDU to' take intO' accDunt that which YDU
read abDut each Df the men. Then YDU can determine what is
fact and what is repDrters' distDrtiDn. We can nDt ask each
Df the candidates what they are all abDut, but we can take
what infDrmatiDn is available and make a ratiDnal decisiDn as
to' whDm to' elect.
':":'Feb. 14-An Evening with . . . The Imperials!!
7:30 p.m. at Bethel CDllege FieldhDuse
Tickets $2.00, $2.50 at the dDDr
"":'A Bethel male came intO' my Dffice yesterday to' ask me if
Interim was always this exciting. I told him to' buzz Dff and
let me gO' back to' sleep .
. ,. :'The St. Paul Winter Carnival will be held Jan. 28-Feb. 6,
and its theme will be "A Salute to' SDuthern HDspitality".
First event Df the Carnival will be the annual snDwmDbile
race frDm Winnipeg to' St. Paul. When the first driver ar­rives
in St. Paul Dn Friday, Jan. 28, the Winter Carnival will
Dfficially Dpen. CDrDnatiDn Df King BDreas Rex will be Fri­day,
Jan. 28, with the Grand Parade the next afternDDn,
Dn Saturday. Queen Df the Snows cDrDnatiDn is to' be Tues­day,
Feb. 1. The TDrchlight Parade will be held Dn the eve­ning
Df Saturday, Feb. 5. The Winter Carnival Ice Palace
is nDW being erected Dn KellDgg Mall, Dn the CDrner Df
KellDgg and Cedar Streets near dDwntDwn St. Paul. A
Winter Carnval buttDn will admit YDU to' SDme Df the events
Df the festival. See the special sectiDn Df next Sunday's
Pioneer Press fDr further details Df time and place.
':":'Walter Hickel, fDrmer Secretary Df the InteriDr, will address
a rally at Augsburg CDllege, in Melby Hall, at 8 p.m. Dn
Jan. 22. Hickel, whDse recent bDDk, Who Owns America
Dutlines the changes he wDuld like to' see in the American
pDlitical prDcess, will speak Dn precinct caucuses and the
envirDnment. Tickets will be $1.00 fDr students and $2.00 fDr
adults. They can be Dbtained by calling 920-5750 Dr will be
available at the dDDr.
five
Conference annual meetings
share spiritual enthusiasm
by Dan Peterson
Whether realized Qr not by many
Bethel students, this past mQnth has
_been one of great impQrtance in PQlicy
making not 'Only for Qur Qwn interests
here at Bethel, but alsO' f.Qr the wider
SCQpe Qf the entire Baptist General CQn­ference
This was 'a result of the annual
mind-year board sessiQns of the Baptist
General CQnference held at Trinity Bap­tist
church here in St. Paul. Amidst
business matters of utmost impQrtance,
however, it is refreshing ,and exciting
to' hear abQut the undaunted mQving
Qf the Lord and His HQly Spirit among
various phases Qf ministry in Qur Con­ference.
As a point of commencement here,
it should be stated that Bethel CQllege
was mentiQned time after time as 'One
of the places in Which the HQly Spirit
is si-gnifilcantly mQving. Perha,ps it is
'Often difficult to' notIce from the inside
amidst the hecHc student life, but many
peQple are notioing significant results
and ha'ppenings from students whO' are
definitely turned Qn fQr Jesus.
In lQoking at soOme 'Of the other CQn­ference
programs and ministries, it is
alsO' exciting to' hear that things are
really happening all around the wQrld.
_ Literal revival fires have been set in
Ethiopia, the Philippines, and perhaps
mQst significantly in Qur neighbQring
land of Canada. Churches in central
Canada have welcomed such growth and
infilling of the Spirit that buildings are
nQt large enQugh to' hQuse the thousands
of people questing f.Qr a renewed spirit
in Ghrist. Hundreds Qf laymen, stu­dents,
and even pastQrs are experienc­ing
a veritable baptism Qf t'he Holy
Spirit.
Such enthusiasm has nQt been a­voiding
Qur United states, even though
the LQrd may wQrk in different ways.
In a recent CQnference fall Sund,ay
schoQl enlargement prO' gram, SCQres of
Sunday SchoQls experienced 'a real re­vival,
many dQubling their attendance,
while others have left the fQur w'alls
'Of the church and succeeded in canvas­sing
entire cities, virtually thQusands
Qf peQple, 'On 'behalf of their church
and Jesus Christ. Individual churches
have likewise become enthusiastic 'Over
MISSION SHARE, a Conference funded
drive prQgram which is designed to
raise money fQr expenses of variQus
CQnference projects, including Bethel
College. Not only are individual churches
six
excited, but entire states and districts
are seeing new chul1ches 'bQrn, and re­vival
of spiritual interest where once
there was nQne at all.
NQt only is 'Our Oonference witness­ing
renewed spiritual interest, there
is a'lso a renewed interest in the social
asped of 'Our ministry, especially in
inne'r 'City 'areas. A new prO' gram with
some limited funding is designed to
particuIoarly help any PQssible social
ministry deemed important and wQrk-able.
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In additiQn to this new develQpment,
the OQnference is attempting to use the
mass media, including film, cassette,
and radio, in new ways to relate Jesus
Christ.
Final'ly, there is a great deal Qf an­ticip'atiQn
for the next annual meeting
of the CQnference this June 'alt the Camp
'Of the WOQds, SpeculatQr, New York:
Adopting the theme "LQQk W Qrld, I
Love YQU," thousands of CQnference
Baptists will gather at probably Qne Qf
the most beautifU'l camp grQunds in
QUI" cQuntry to' share ideas, business, and
no doubt leave with a new desire to
demQnstrate to 'a wQrld desperately
10Qking for it .that there is IQve and CQn­cern
among GQd's people, even amQng
thQsecalled CQnference Baptists.
Becky teaches
deaf children
how to read
by Judy Harrington
Becky PetersQn, a freshman here at
Bethel, is teaching deaf children to
read during Interim. She is teaching at
Jefferson Elementary SchQQI in St. Paul,
assistant to a WQman who te,aches groups
of eight, 11, and 12-13 112 year oIds.
"I managed to' get this opportunity
through Phil Carlson, myadvisQr, who
knew the teacher," Becky said. "It's part
of my CQurse 'YQuth in the Inner City'.
Actually, it's not an inner city schQQI,
but a number of the children come from
homes which are quite poor."
Teaching deaf children can be very
frustrating at times, according to Becky.
Often a simple instructiQn has to' be re­peated
fQur Qr five times.
It took me 20 minutes one day to' ex­plain
a tiny sentence to Qne little girl.
Their attention span is SO' shQrt and they
remember so little," she commented.
One Qbstacle Becky overcame was that
Qf communicatiQn. She was fQrced to'
learn the manual alphabet as fast as
possible.
"It's nQt just a matter Qf learning the
alphabet. It's a whQle new language
and way of cQmmunicating. And the kids
'talk' SO' fast!" Becky said.
MQtivation is Qne key problem amQng
the deaf children at Jefferson, Becky
said she feels. Children are fairly unre­sPQnsive.
They seem to' have little desire
to' learn to read or speak. Being unable
to hear the language sPQken and decide
what "sounds right", they have an added
handicap in learning grammar.
"A little bQY handed mea nQte the
other day saying he liked my pantsuit.
It read, 'Pretty pantsuit your'. And an­Qther
student wrote me a nQte asking
me to' be his friend. It said 'DO' yQU have
a new friend to' me?'," she explained,
citing an example.
With so many prQblems to' surmQunt,
it seems Becky's wQrk WQuld be unsatis­fying
and unrewarding, but that's nQt
the way she looks at it.
"The reward comes when a student
finally makes a breakthrough. Then all
the wQrk and frustratiQn is more than
wQrth it. And I think it's SO' much more
rewarding than wQrking with ,average
school children," Becky remarked.
If possible, Becky plans to' gO' into
this type of work after graduatiQn.
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People's Podiullt
Dear Editor:
Your editorial of October 29, 1971
asked a valid question of whether we
stiU have a responsibility to the Viet­namese
people. I agree with you that
we have a continued obligation but not
militarily.
Your claim that a "pull-out" is a
"cop out" is true. Withdrawal is a
denial of Christian involvemen.t, when­ever
the call 'Of God is for engagement.
However, there are times for withdrawal
and retreat. Jesus recognized times of
flight and disengagement. When he
was threatened he "withdrew," (Mat­thew
12:15), "hid" (John 8:59), "es­caped"
(John 10:39), "no longer traveled
'Openly" (J'Ohn 12: 15), etc. Many other
Biblical .passages support the concept
of "retreat" and "withdrawal" ·as valid
acts f'Or p'Olitically aware 'and sensitive
people.
Contrary to your opinion and the
public impression, the United States of
America has NOT withdrawn from its
involvement in the Vietnamese war.
President Nixon is in the process of
pulling off his greatest public relations
coup. In a m'Ost skillful way he is
creating the iillusion that the war is
"winding down," "phasing out," "Viet­namizing."
In reality we have not
stopped the war machine. Only
brought some of "our boys" home. Death
Jan. 11, 1972
Dear Bob,
I 'couldn.'t put everything I wanted
to say on a postcard, so I hope this will
suffice. I was really moved by this
experience in the Castle Church of
Wittenburg. This is the best way I
could express it. The unity that has come
to the College Choir is indescribalble.
God's love radiating thr'Ough us and
throughout us is a beautiful thing. I
say "Hi" to you from everyone in
choir. Stay close -to God.
East Germany.
In Christ,
Bruoe Hoag
We've just arrved at the Castle Church
of Wittenburg, where Martin Luther
posted his 95 theses. The church is
cold and damp, and in its pews sit 170
Bethel students. President Lundquist
stands in the pulpit above Martin Luth­er's
tomb. Although Christianity, as we
know it, is forbidden in this land behind
the Iron Curtain, we meet together for a
few moments of meditation and praise
to God. President Lundquist reminds
us of the faith of Martin Luther and his
commitment to Jesus Christ. While the
College Choir sings, "Come, Soothing
and destruction continues in an un­abated
manner. It is easily documented
that bombing tonage has increased; ref­ugee
and civiHan casualty 'and death
continue on high levels; and the devel��opment
of the automated battlefield
which requires fewer American troops
yet neatly programs death for the en­emy
has immeasura1bly increased. The
only thing that has changed is the
color of skin of people who die.
I am amazed at your conclusion in
light of your own admission that we
(1) were wrong going into the Viet­namese
war, (2) created irrepairable
damage, (3) divided neighbors against
neighbors, (4) caused moral degener­ation.
It is difficult for me to under­stand
how you justify a "continued
wrong." To continue a wrong is irre­sponsible
'and unforgivable. I believe
that Hethel College teaches the need
to (1) repent of wrong, (2) p,reserve
God's creation, (3) reconcile neighbor
to neighbor, and (4) realize that new
beginnings 'are possible for man and
government. Therefore, the churoh
should be the bridge of love that en­hances
society, preserves God's cre­ations
and enables man.
This war is doing the opposite - so
let's dump the true enemy.
Sincerely in Peace,
Dick Westby
Death," the President places flowers
on Martin Luther's tomb:
Come, soothing death, come sweet rep'Ose_
Bear me away in gladness,
Far from this world of sadness.
Ah, come, I wait for thee.
Come soon and set me free.
Soon may my eyelids close,
Come sweet repose.
Come, soothing death, come sweet repose.
Jesus, I'll stand before thee,
With angel hosts adore Thee,
There in that Land of Light.
Now to Thee, goodnight.
Soon may my eyelids c,lose,
Come, sweet repose.
Spiritually, this was a great experi­ence
for me. Communism can't keep
God's people from worshipping Him. It
helped me to appreciate freedom of re­ligi'On
in the United States. It made me
thank God for our freedom. I under­stand
better now why freedom of wor­ship
was so important to our founding
fathers. We as Christians are truly "one
in the spirit."
Bethel students
present
("("A Time To Sow"
Nine Bethel students were in Chicago
over this weekend, presenting the play,
"A Time to Sow", to churches in the
area. The play, written by Bruce Law­son,
dramatizes the efforts of John
Alexis Edgren in starting Bethel Semi­nary.
It was given as an "alumni deal"
according to members of the cast.
Director Bob Bryant hand picked his
cast less than two weeks ago. Bill Anker­berg
starred as John Edgren, with Polly
Jacobson as his wife Anna. Jon Lewis
played his brother Hjalmar. Other mem­bers
of the cast were Tom Billigmeier,
Denny Whitlock, John Carlson (Director
of Alumni Affairs), Dave McKnight, Pete
Enchelmyer, and Bob Bryant himself as
Dr. Northrup.
"Having less than two weeks to whip
this thing together made it pretty
rough," said Polly Jacobson.
The play was presented Friday evening
at Skokie Valley Baptist, Saturday ev­ening
at Elim Baptist, and Sunday morn­ing
at South Shore Baptist Church.
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SUllrise (III tlte New eompus
All systems are "go" for four of the six total units
for the college academic complex on the Arden Hills
campus.
Construction is proceeding on schedule.
Plans are formulating at this time to occupy the
classroom, art, music, library j dining and gymnasiumj
auditorium units by September 1 and to begin the
1972-73 academic year in Arden Hills.
In an announcement to faculty and staff members
early in December, Dr. Carl Lundquist, . president,
said:
"The Lord has not allowed us to get a glimpse of
the whole year ahead at once but has been pleased
to let us see about a week at a time. And that has
been enough.
"This has made the college relocation a" continuing
adventure of faith. Bricks and mortar and blueprints
have been mixed with prayer and hope and commit­ment
to our sovereign God."
The Board of Regents authorized the issuance of
$6 million in bonds at its December meeting which was
approved and accepted by the firm of McMahon and
Hoban, Inc., bonding underwriters of St. Louis. The
issue was approved at 8% % and will be refinanced in
four years.
Harvey De Vries, vice president of public affairs,
said that $1,080,000 is expected from the Mission:��SHARE
program of the Baptist General Conference;
$2 million is expected from sale of the Snelling Avenue
campus; and that $500,000 in current pledges also can
be applied toward college relocation. This reduces the
principle to $2.5 million to be raised.
Federal loans for dormitory housing are being
sought with further announcements expected soon.
Exchange students at Bethel
find conditions poor to excellent
by Brenda Barth
The new faces of five exchange stu­dents
are at Bethel for the Interim
session. The faces are from Westmin­ster
College, Sioux Falls College, Ham­line,
Case Western Reserve, and Augus­tana
College. The European tour groups
have fifteen additional travelers from
Ta'bor College in Hillsboro, Kansas. In
the exchange prog·ram, nineteen Bethel
students can be found dispersed through­out
the campuses of Calvin College, Ham­line,
St. Catherine, Case Western Re­serve,
Theil College, Huron College, and
Alaska Methodist University.
Some of the unfamiliar faces expressed
their reactions to Bethel.
"Bethel is a conservativ'e college with
too many rules restricting one's social
life," said Frank Wilson, sophomore at
Case Western Reserve. "I came for In­terim
because I had never been to the
Twin Cities. At Bethel I feel separated
from the urban life." Case Western Re­serve
is a private university with 4000
undergraduates. "There are no simil­arities
between Case Reserv'e and Belth­el.
Bethel is definitely not better," he
remarked. Frank, majoring in Comput­er
Engineering, is enrolled in the Com­puter
Programming Course for Interim.
"My life-style differs f,rom that of most
people at Bethel," he .explained. "Ev­eryone
seems friendlier on Ithe surface
but I couldn't stand it here fDr more
than a month."
Deb Patterson finds Bethel favora,ble
to her expectations. "Students here are
dedicated in their Christian lives. I'm
amazed at the lunchroom conversations
I've heard; everything centers on Christ,"
she said. Deb is a sociology major at
Sioux Falls College. "I enjoy my course
in Charismatic Christianity because it's
so interesting and I've never had this
type of opportunity. I'm impressed by
the concern 'Of the instructors for their
students." Reflecting 'On a previous Deb,
also a member of the Deeper Life team
in October, she reflected, "I was dis­appointed
with some of the reaction of
Bethel students to the Deeper Life
team. There was an institutional pride
that judged us team members by its
standards. I feel we were misunder­stood."
Westminster College in Pennsylvania
sent Bruce Ekin to Bethel to study En­counter
wth Social PrDblems. "I like
ten
Bethel and appreciate the Christian at­titudes.
Everything is on a more personal
basis than what I've experienced at
Westminster. One impression I have is
the chapel situation. It's a good idea that
it isn't compulsory, but there's nothing
to do when everything else is closed,"
Bruce commented.
Bev Jacobson from Hamline can be
found in Spanish House. Marianne Brek-ke,
senior at Augustana College in
Sioux Falls, is studying Sociology at
Bethel.
"An increased interest is evident in
the second year of the Interim Ex­change
prog·ram," said Phil Carlson, dir­ector
of Interim. "Enrollment to and
from other colleges is up. Last year
only three Bethel students participated
in the exchange program."
SHOW ME cast excited
about complete gospel musical
A group 'Of students, most of whom
are from Bethel College, have grouped
,together to put on one of the newest
of the Christian musicals, SHOW ME.
This production may be a lot of things,
but bashful it isn't. If there are bushes,
SHOW ME won't be seen beating around
them. Its total honesty may shake you
a little, but you won't forget it.
Billed as "an exciting new love and
concern musical about Jesus," SHOW
ME has the nerve to poke some very
pointed fun at the sanctimonious hyp­ocrisy
of today's establishment church.
At the same time, however, it depicts
beautifully the changes which true con­version
and unselfish witnessing can
bring to a person's life.
Jimmy and Carol Owens created SHOW
ME partially 'because they were im­pressed
by the success 'Of other religious
musicals on the current scene. And yet,
this can not be dubbed as another jump
on the gospel rock bandwagon. Shows
like "Superstar" and "Tell It Like It
Is" have had their impact, and for good
reasons. But none of these have so
specifically sought to move the listener
through the actual conversion experi­ence.
It's the Christians versus the non-be­lievers
right from the start of SHOW
ME. Chris and Patty, played by Tim
Johnson and Judy Feuk, are two young
churchgoers who bemoan the fact that
they seem unable to reach peDple WhD
aren't Christians with a real personal
kind of witness. Their non-Christian
counterpart, Joey (played by Martin
Mauk) , has his reasons for not wanting
to listen. One of his solos goes: "I met
a man who called me brother, preachin'
'bout loving one another. Just when
I thought I could dig it, that man turned
out to be a bigot."
Joey has a couple of friends, played
by Dave Shaw and Judy Allison, who
are more than willing to show him
ways out of his searching dilemma. How
a'bout drugs? Astrology? Meditation?
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climax is reached when Joey !forces
himself to face reality and the result
is a simple, yet very moving conversa­tion
with God.
lighting and choreography with a multi­media
presentation produced by Mr.
James Treece.
The non-believer may not immediately
and obviously repent, but he will prob­ably
feel the faint stirrings of change
beginning inside.
SHOW ME is supplemented by a choral
group of fifteen who play various Chris­tian
roles. A close look is taken at the
different functions of the church. For
instance, the Church Board, Ladies Mis­sionary
Society and the Youth Sponsors
each have their place within the music.
Finishing touches are added by special
Perhaps the most vital factor in SHOW
ME is that it a,bsolutely demands some
kind of response. The viewer may laugh
with embarrassed recognition ,as he sees
his phony religious self 'On stage, con­vincingly
superficial. He may want to
cry with conviction when he realizes how
many opportunities for real Christian
witness have already passed him by.
SHOW ME presents a dramatic con­frontation
between the doubting, search­ing
youth and today's establishment
church. Neither group has the answer.
But there is an answer, and March 4
at 8 p.m., in the Bethel Fieldhouse, this
answer might be put across through
SHOW ME.
Dramatists learn Snow White, how to imagine
by Christy Taber
Imagine!
A tiny red door that leads under a hill,
Beneath roots and bright stones
And pebbly rill.
Imagine!
A quaint little knocker and shoe-scraper too,
A curious carved key
Waiting for you.
Imagine!
Tiptoe on doormat, you're turning the key,
The red door would open
And there you'd be ...
Imagine!
Shut the door tightly so no one should see,
And no one would know then
Where you would be ...
Imagine if you can!
Creative Dramatics for Children class has entered the
little red door. Students are learning how to expand their
own imaginations in order to become more creative individuals
themselves and to be able to relate to the thought patterns
of children. Students have been dividing their time between
simply learning how to imagine and producing a play entitled
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings are spent
learning the art of imagination. Students have found out
how it feels to be bacon sizzling, popcorn popping, and
leaves blown about by the wind. When Professor Donald
Rainbow says, "Take space, class", each students finds his
own area and when he says, "Curtain", each does his own thing.
The emphasis here is not on realism but on self !fulfillment.
When a student feels he himself has felt a role adequately,
no matter how ilt might look to outsiders, he has done the
assignment correctly.
Readings of stories and poetry often set the imaginations
going. Sometimes the students are given a basic line and
individually allowed to create their own characterizations, often
becoming so involved, they think up life stories for them­selves.
The study is divided into three concentrations: pantomime,
characterization and dialogue.
Tuesday and Thursday mornings the class observes the
creative imaginations of fourth graders with whom Professor
Rainbow works. Many of the students plan to work with
children in the future. By watching these kids' express them­selves
they are learning how children think and feel. One
student was surprised to note how the children were just as
enthusiastic about their imagination lessons as recess time.
While mornings are devoted to free creativity, afternoons
are filled with play practices. Every student is an actor and
on one of three committees: sets, properties, or costumes.
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" starring Sharon Eisfeld
as Snow White, Grace T~ude as Queen Brangomair and Steve
Larson as Prince Florimond will be presented to the public
at Northwestern, Saturday evening, Jan. 29, in 7 p.m. and 9
p.m. performances. ,The Dramatics class requests that faculty
and their families attend the earlier performance and college
students wait for the later one. Tickets will be fifty cents
and probably won't be sold at the door.
During Founders Week the students will perform twice a
day each day for school children, hoping to cover around 2,500.
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Children. The students are learning to be less inhibited, more
imaginative and more communitive.
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Charismatic Christianity
explores role of Holy Spirit
by Marshall Shelley
Outside it was so cold the little hairs
froze in the students' noses as they
hurried toward the large church build­ing.
The skin on their faces was just
beginning to stiffen as they reached
the door.
Once inside, the students' first im­pression
was the warmth, not only the
temperature, but also the attitude of
the large crowd of people who were
gathered in the basement of St. Albert
the Great Catholic Church.
The students are part of the Charis­matic
Christianity class being taught
at Bethel during Interim by Dr. Alfred
Glenn and Dr. Robert Stein.
Students have been visiting several
"pentecostal" services in their study
of the charismatic movement and the
"gifts of the Spirit." The worshippers
at the service probably would not care
to be called "pentecostals" as they might
have been in the past, but instead would
prefer to be known simply as a Christ­ian
fellowship of believers.
En:thusiastic singing was the first
thing the students noticed. Some Bap­tist
c' urches could learn quite a bit a­bout
running a song service from these
people.
Speaking in tongues, prophecy and
singing in tongues were also part of the
program. Even though there were about
200 people at the service, many were
eager to share experiences they had
during the past week and present prayer
requests.
Bethel students have gone to such
places at Compassion, Inc., Daystar and
the New Testament Church in Edina as
well as St. Albert's in order to see the
"gifts of the Spirit" in action.
The purpose of the course is to
"study the role of the Holy Spirit in the
believer's life," said Dr. Stein. "We
want to look critically but lovingly at
the whole charismatic movement."
He said that Chtristians must have
more to their faith than just emotion.
We must learn what is good from the
charismatic movement and remove that
which is bad. We can't let fads deter­mine
our faith, he said, but we must
base our faith on what is in the Bible.
More than anything else, Dr. Stein
said, we want to teach each student
how to let the Holy Spirit be more
meaningful in his life.
Small groups within the class are do­ing
independent research on such topics
as faith healing, tongues, demon exor­cism,
sanctification and the history of
the charismatic movement.
Freshman Doug Johnson, a student
in the class, said that he felt the in­dependent
research was very valuable,
but there were weaknesses to the class.
"I went into the class looking for a
Biblical view on the concept of a second
spiritual experience subsequent to sal­vation.
I think I've gotten this, but in
some ways, I think we have been attack­ing
a stereotype of Pentecostalism,"
Johnson said. "Weare getting criteria
to judge Pentecostal meetings, and that's
good, but the pentecostal question goes
deeper."
Another student said, "I've gained a
new awareness from the course that
Baptists are not the only Christians, In
fact, some people we may disagree with
theologically may be better Christians
than we are."
Tom Weitzel said, "We're not really
studying the role of the Holy Spirit. It's
more a study of Pentecostalism."
Most students agreed, however, that
they were learning things they hadn't
known before about certain aspects of
the Holy Spirit.
((atbolic colleges, catbebrals
become teacbers for class
by Bev Olsson
Professors and students are learning
together about the meaning behind the
Catholic rites and ritual in the Interim
course Roman Catholicism' from Trent
to Vatican II. Dr. Lewis and Dr. Olsen
are instructing this class in the study
of Roman Catholicism. An exciting as­pect
of the course is visitation to various
types of Catholic establishments. Before
the class is completed eight such places
will be invaded by Bethel students. A
tour through St. Paul's magnificent Ca­t'
1edral gave students a feeling of awe­some
worship. Joyce Anderson stated
that talking to the different Church
officials has given her a new respect
for some of them. "I really respect the
nuns," she said. "Their dedication is
unbelievable, everything they do is on
a voluntary basis, and they gain nothing
personally. I had preconceived ideas
about nuns. I thought it was stupid to
cut themselves off from society. Now
I understand why they do it. I respect
them, but I still don't agree."
As interesting as the visits to St.
Paul's Cathedral and to the different
Catholic Colleges were, neither masses
nor classes were in session at the time.
Students didn't find the opportunity to
talk with the people involved until the
visit to the parochial school. Many of
the students agree that so far, this has
been the most informative trip. They
spoke to a variety of people - the
principal, the superintendent, teachers,
and students. They saw people living
everyday lives in a religious situation
different from their own. Melody Lied­strand
said, "I found that the school
was very open. The teachers didn't have
to be Catholics and if the kids weren't
Catholic, they didn't have to take the
religious courses. In fact, it was hardly
Catholic at all." Tim Trude noticed this
as well. "Some of them thought we
were an education class," Tim com­mented,"
and they weren't trying to im­press
us with their religion just be­cause
we were observing it."
The Bethel students will also visit a
convent, a Catholic hospital, Newman
Center on the University Campus, and
a high mass at a local parish.
The course has been a real learning
experience for many students. As Mel
Liedstrand commented, "I have gained
more respect for Catholics. I used to
think a person had to be unintelligent
to believe all that, but seeing the his­tory
behind the Catholic church makes
it really fit in. I can understand how
members would believe it, but I still
don't understand how they get around
verses like Ephesians 2:8,9."
Minnesota Spanish
culture studied by
Casa Hispanica
been making many other field trips.
They have visited the homes of both
Guatemalan and Argentine families,
seen the International Institute in St.
Paul, and attended a lecture on bull­fighting
at the University.
"Being in this course you sure can't
complain about not getting off campus,"
one student remar-ked.
Virginia McKean explained why she
liked the course. "It's really great to be
able to compare the culture of these
Latin peoples to ours and see the dif­ferences.
And it's interesting to find
out how we look to them - -cold, never
saying good morning when we greet
each other or goodbye when we leave,"
Virgina said.
by Judy Harrington
The KenQsha apartment house on the
corner of Twelfth and Harmon in Min­neapolis
is an inconspicuous Qld red
brick building. Only a handful of poople
in the Twin City a,rea know its in­terior
is lighted by Latin warmth and
hospitality.
Miss Lillian Ryberg, Associate Profes­sor
of Spanish here at Bethel, got tQ
know these people "through a gradual
series of events that led to getting to
know them quite well. Most of the fam­ilies
in the apartments are related in
some way, ,and have -come from Cuba
in ,the last several years. I knew the
first member of their family to come
over and eventually came to have mOore
contacts with them through the Sal­vation
Army in Minneapolis and the
Spanish Church at Bethlehem Baptist,
led by Pastor Antonio DeParis."
A week ago Tuesday, on Jan. 11, she
brought her Casa Hispanica class wtth
her to the Abreu's for a typical Cuban
meal and to learn about Latin cooking.
The result was also a lesson in people.
The Abreu apartment was old and
too small for so many curious, students,
but tastefully furnished and decorated.
The kitchen, where students were taken
first, was particularly attr,active with
its Spanish red stain on the woodwork
and its black trim.
"Most of these people came over here
with nothing but themselves and the
clothes on their 'backs," Miss Ryberg
said later. "Back home they were lead­ers
in their communities - respec<ted
people. It's a ways to step down in
the world - coming like this."
While food was being prepared, stu­dents
asked questions of the Abreus
and their cousins, Car-idad and Celia
Garcia, who had dropped in for supper.
They informed us that the Bible study,
which was to !be held that evening with
the Salvation Army people, was going
to be in their home.
Supper consisted of salad, tortilla
chips, beans, and a delicious ~emony
cake with ginger tasting frosting.
The Abreus and Ga,rcias spoke of why
they came to the United States and of
their problems here.
"We came because in Cuba there sim-ply
isn't anything. No food, no clothes,
no opportunity for advancement," said
Caridad Garcia. "There is only one class
of people in Cuba -the poor. Except
for Castro, of course - he's rich."
The Abreu family is lucky. Their
fathe-r managed to come to the United
States with the rest of the ,family, and
that is rare. In Cuba, the law makes it
very difficult for men to leave the
country - especially young men. Many
of the fathers stay behind to be with
their sons and hope for the time their
families will be reunited in the States.
At the Bible study later, the Cuban
families greeted each other with some
amount of rapid, Spanish chatter. A
circle of chairs was formed and a
neighboring baby was exhibited proud­ly
and passed around, back and forth.
No one seemed able to find out for
sure just who the "ninito" be-long'ed to.
Favorite hymns were sung (in Span­ish,
of course), and a short talk was
given by Major Anderson of the Sal­vation
Army. Miss Ryberg translated
the message. The evening ended with
refreshments of juice and cookies.
"I thought I understood Spanish real­ly
well until I went to the Abreus,"
commented Kathi Engstrom later. "That
was really fast Spanish."
The Casa Hispanica class has also
Involvement Opportunities
We have Sunday worship at 9:00, II :00
and 7 :00 p.m., plus College Class at
10:00 a.m.
So do most churches!
But
Consider these opportunities for involve­ment
"One to One" tutoring program
practices on Wednesday evenings
"The Wreck" - Community teen drop-in
c~nter each Friday night
(NEEDED ALIVE WITNESSING JESUS
PEOPLE)
For more information contact Sid Veen­stra,
our Youth Pastor, P.O. Box 244,
phone number 646-2751
Central Baptist Church
Bus leaves dorms at 9:45 a.m. Sunday
morning
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Scores of men with an urgent sense
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Currently sPQrting a 7·5 won-lost rec.­ord,
the Bethel Royals open a three
game home stand tonight (Friday) with
a game against Westmar College. The
Royals were 99-87 victims of Westmar
last Saturday night so this should pro­vide
the Royals with some added incen.
tive as they seek to regain their win­ning
ways in the second weekend of
Tri-State Conference play.
The Bethel Royals have been in­volved
in s,even games since the last
issue of the Clarion came out SQ briefly
here is a summa,ry of that action. On
Dec, 17, when most Bethel students
were home or on the way, the Royals
evened their record at 3-3 with a 94-84
decision OVeT Grace College. High point .
man for Bethel was Steve Scroggins with
34 points, while Jack Hoehl and Willie
Hill both had 19. Hill also controlled
the boards with 18 rebounds.
Over Christmas vacation, the Royals
participated in the 'Lakehead Invita­tional
Tournament and garnered a sec­cond-
ulace .finish. In the first game,
Bethel squeaked out a victory over host
Lakehead College, 96-94. Hill had an­other
strong night with 24 points and
13 rebounds while forward Tim Maring
provided more than adequate support
with 22 ,points, The next night, Bethel
could only ·muster 23 percent shooting
and lost to the University of Minnesota
Duluth, 76-61. In the last tournament
game, the Royals edged Western Ontario
for second place, 86-83 behind a strong
performance from senior Hoehl. Hoehl
was 10-for-15 from the floor and made
all six of his tries from the line for
26 points.
Bethel's first game of the new year was
a victorious one as the Rovals got by
Carleton College, 75-73, Once again
Bethel's three big scorers, Hill, Scrog­gins,
and Hoehl led the attack with 19.
19, and 18 points, respectively. Shooting
percentages were improved this game
as the Royals shot exactly 50 percent
from the field. Last Friday night, the
Royals defeated Sioux Falls College 94-
84 to raise their record to 7 wins and
4 losses. Steve Scroggins was the top
scorer again making 11 shots from the
floor and all nine of his free throws for
31 points. Hill with 23 points, Hoehl
with 11, and Gordy W.ahlberg with 10
gave Bethel a balanced scoring attack.
The next night Bethel traveled to
Westmar College where the Eagles hand­ed
them their first conference setback,
99-87. The ina'bility to contain the big
man proved to be one of Bethel's down.
falls as Westmar's 6'-9" junior center
Dennis Cullinan scored 37 points and
grabbed 18 rebounds. Westmaralso pro-fourteen
ceeded to make a phenomenal 31 out of
34 free throw tries.
While Scroggins had 28 points, Hoehl
had one of :the finest all-around nights
of his career with 26 points. After scor­ing
11 points in the first half Hill was
blanked in the second half and his de­parture
via the foul route late in the
game seemed to stifle Bethel's comeback
charge. Down 18 points at one time in
the second haLf Bethel cut the margin
to seven with about four minutes to
go in the game. At this point the EagIes
went into a stall, forcing the Royals to
come after the ball. Westma'r's sizzling
freethrow shooting made the eventual
margin of victory 12 points.
This weekend the Bethel Royals will
host Westmar College and Sioux Falls
College and Wednesday night North­land
comes to Bethel for a nonconfer­ence
game.
Breaking away from a dismal 0-5 start,
Bethel's freshman basketlball team won
their first game of the season last Sat­urday
night at the Bethel Fieldhouse,
.overcoming St. Paul Bible College's
varsity squad 73-67.
In the first half, Bethel found them­selves
down by 10-12 points several
times, but at halftime, St. Paul Bible Col.
lege could only boast a two point lead.
Several times in the second half, Bethel
broke away to somewhat comfortable
leads on clutch baskets by guard Don
Paterson only to see St. Paul come back
to tighten the game up again.
In the closing minutes, the Royals
played keep-away, forcing st. Paul to
foul and put the game out of reach.
Bethel received balanced scoring as
Paterson and center Wayne Hallquist led
t:le Royals with 18 points each ' while
forward Craig Dahl chipped in with 17.
Guard Paul Reasoner was the other man
in double figures with 10 points, 8 of
those coming on 100 percent shooting
from the free throw line.
As could be expected after the team's
first win, there was a very optimistic
feeling among the players ,afteT the
game. One player expressed it by say­ing,
"Our season started tonight -
we're 1 and 0 right now."
W"eMibu;
Fred Witzgall earned Bethel's only
victory as the Royal's wrestlng team
lost to the University of Minnesota
Morris 36-9 last Friday. Morris for­feited
the 118-pound match to Craig
Johnson to account for the rest of
Bethel's points.
It SQon became evident in the match
that the Royals had bitten off a bit
more than they could chew in the
tough Morris Cougars. Morris has a
very well-coached team with lots of
strength, quickness and knowledge. Ter­ry
Karlsgodt and Dave Hanks were im­pressive
even though outclassed by
their opponents.
Bethel wrestled St. Mary's College
last Wednesday and won easily 36-13.
Mark Eggiman, Witzgall and Karls­godt
each dropped one weight class to
fill the gap caused when Bruce Barringer
left the team.
Tomorrow, Saturday, the Royals mee,t
Carleton at 9:30 a.m. and st. Olaf at
3:30 p.m. The matches are at Carleton
and st. Olaf respectively.
The next home match will be next
Tuesday night against St. Thomas at
7:30.
-Last weekend, Steve Scroggins scored
a total of 59 points in two games'. He
was named athlete of the week by The
Bethel Clarion for his performance.
The sophomore from St. Paul's Mech­anics
Arts High School scored 31 points
in Bethel's 94-84 victory over Sioux
Falls and 28 points in the loss to West- .
mar. He was also sharp, as a playmaker
and his passes were crisp.
Scroggins has good ability to take ad­vantage
of any opportunity the opposi­tion
gives. He used his ability to spot
the open man weU in both games last
weekend.
"Beat the Father Founders
To the books that are
surely sounder,
Many selections we sell
From Barrett to Pannell
Attache' cases reduced
30 % as welL"
by Rich Zaderaka
I'm sorry if any feelings were irrepairably damaged in
my last column. I'll close that subject by saying "if the old
tennis shoe fits-wear it."
The following is not intended to be malicious (not exactly,
anyway) and should be taken with a grain of salt and two
Alka-Seltzer ta,blets.
In the next year I'd like to see ...
. Stanford be favored in the Rose Bowl and lose.
. Leo Durocher get a vote of confidence and get fired
three days later (that's the way it's supposed to
happen).
Athletes start wearing crew cuts like they used to.
UCLA have a losing basketball season.
Howard Cosell retire from sports casting and become
an obnoxious bartender or cab driver on the east
coast.
Tom Meeks play a game for the faculty basketball
team without ever taking a shot from further than
fifteen feet.
Soccer become a varsity sport and have a 1-8-1 record.
An FDA investigation reveal that the food service
actually has been serving barbecued tennis shoes
and award R.Z. a medal of distinction.
Curt Gowdy fall out of his boat and drown while
fishing with Bing Crosby and Ted Williams for marlin
off the coast of the Bahamas.
Bethel's football team (which was shut out in five of
nine games last year) shut out all nine opponents
next year and finish with a record of 0-0-9.
The music department agree to allow free student
admission to concerts. Nary a student shows up so
it doesn't cost them a cent.
Bud Grant (proclaimed by sportswriters and sports-
(Long Hair Is In - Have Us Shape It)
Falcon Barbershop
1713 N. Snelling
For Appointments Call 646·2323
Jim-Joe
casters as Mr. Un-Emotional) laugh himself sick as
Ed Sharockman blocks a punt and rambles 47 yards
for a TD as the Vikings apparently win "the big
one". However, the play gets called back because
of a penalty and Grant 1) violently curses the offi­cials
2) breaks the first down markers over his
knee and throws them on the field 3) tears the goal
post out of the ground and throws them at the score­board.
Woody Hayes, watching the game on TV,
comments to a journalist friend, "Oh well, you can't
win them all."
Carleton play a box and one defense against Bethel
(four men pressing Steve Scroggins full court and
a one man zone). Scroggins singlehandedly dribbles
through the Carleton press just to practice and sets
up teammates with crowd thrilling passes. Bethel
wins 118-37.
WBCS radio go to a country western music format
and gain three devoted listeners which is more than'
they have now .
The Bell Telephone Company quit screwing up
Bethel broadcasts by cutting off the connection just
as the game gets exciting.
Something which may happen in the next year ...
A certain sportswriter mysteriously disappears. A
two day investigation fails to turn up any suspects
but three days later the cafeteria serves the football,
cross country and soccer teams a training meal of
hot corner a la king.
Jump Hill For Winter Olympics
• Okurayama jump hill, freshly covered by a recent
snowfall, is one of two competition ski jump sites to
be used in the 11th 'Olympic Winter Games slated
in. Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, February 3 - 13, 1972.
Within a beautiful, protected forest, the towering
ju.mp, which embodies the latest in competition design,
wIll feature 90-meter jump events. Okurayama is
situated about four miles west of the center of
Sapporo, the largest city in Hokkaido, which has a
population of about 794,000.
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Md. Deadline: April 17 October 9# Board of registry 6 mos. in state; Nov. 7 for general
Yes
Primary: May 16# (P) in county seat 28 days in county and primary
Mass. Deadline: Mar;;r1r~l:~~f!i October 7#
I City election commis- I ~~~iI7 for ~e!.'eral No
April 25 (~19;-P";;,;j'. : 19#
of 6 mos. in town line: Aug l; registration f~- primaries 19
Mich. Deadline: July 7 October 7# Township. city or 6 mos. in state; Nov. S for general
Yes
Primary: August ·8# village clerk 4 wks. in town Aug. 7 for primary
Minn. Deadline: August 22 October 17# City, village or
30 days in precinct
Nov. 7 for general
Yes
Primary: September 12# town clerk Sept. 12 for primary
Miss. July 7 Clerk of circuit 1 yr. in state and
In doubt court in county seat Nov. 7 for general No I ~~~~i~dt 6
mos. in
.... .. ~ .... ~--. - c~rr.enU;; Deadline: varies July 12 Varies October
Board of election 1 yr. in state; SO days in Nov. 7 for general Mo. to 15; Primary: Aug. 8 11 to October 14 commissioners or county; 10 days in pre- Aug. 8 for primary I~sta~~rs'be( county clerk cinct (in some counties)
Mont. Deadline: April 26 September 27 County clerk & re- 1in y rc.o iunn tsyt,a tper; e3c0i ndcaty; s Nov. 7 for general Yes Primary: June 6 corder in county seat S mos. in city June 6 for primary
Deadline: April 28 Election commission-
S mos. in state;
Nebr. October 27 40 days in county; Nov. 7 for general Yes Primary: May 9 (P) er or county clerk 10 days in precinct May 9 for primary
Deadline: July 22
6 mos. in state; Nov. 7 for general Nev. Primary: September 5 September 30 County clerk 30 days in county; No 10 days in precinct Sept. 5 for primary
)""ilHn : Feb. ~S~o Mar .. S
N.H. Primary: Mar. 7 (Pres. October 28 to Board of supervisors Nov. S for general
Deadline: Sept 2 to 11; pri- November S of the check list 6 mos. in state March 13 or Sept. 11 Yes
mary: Sept. 12# for primaries
N.J. Deadline: April 27 September 28
Supt. of . or
6 mos. in state; Nov. 7 for general
Primary: June 6 (P) sec. of county elec- 40 days in county and primary No
tion board
N.Mex. Deadline: April 25 September 2S
12 mos. in state; Nov. 7 for general
Primary: June 6 (P) County clerk 90 days in county; June S for primary Yes
30 days in preCinct
N.Y. PDreiamdalirnye:: JJuunnee 290 # (P) October 14#. Inspector of election 3c imtyo;s .1 0i nd asytast ein, cporuencitnyc, t JNuonve. 72 0f ofro rg epnreimraalr y Yes
N.C. PDreiamdalirnye:: MAapyri l2 #3 (P) October 9# cRoeugnitsyt rsaer aitn 13 0y dr.a yins sinta ptere; cinct MNoavy. 27 ffoorr pgreinmearrayl No
N.Dak. No registration in ND 1 yr. in state; Nov. 7 for general
Primary: September 5 90 days in county;
30 days in precinct Sept. 5 for primary
Ohio Deadline·: March 22 County board of 6 mos. in state; Nov. 7 for general
Primary: May 2 (P) September 27 elections 40 days in county and and primary No
precinct
Deadline: August 11 County elections S mos. in state Nov. 7 for general Okla. Primary: August 22 October 27 board 2 mos. in county; No 20 days in precinct
Aug. 22 for primary
Oregon Deadline: April 22 October 7 Registrar in 6 mos. in state
Nov. 7 for general'
Primary: May 23 (P) county seat May 23 for primary' Yes
Pa. Deadline: March 4 September 16
County_ commission- 90 days in state; SO days Nov. 8 for general No Primary: April 25 (P) ers or Registration
commission in Phila. in county or preCinct April 26 for primary
R.I. PDreiamdalirnye:: AFperbilr u1a1r y(P 1)0 September 7 Tauotwhno rcitayn vassing 1S ymro. si. ni ns ttaotwe;n ANopvri. l 71 1f ofro rg epnreimraal ry No
S.C. Deadline: May 13 County board of 6 mos. i~~;~ct Nov. S' for general
Primary: June 13 October 7 registration i ~Omdoa~;~'; . June 12* for primary No
S. Dak. Deadline: May 22 County auditor
i 5 yrs. in U.S.; 180 days Nov. 7 for general
Primary: June 6 (P) October 23 in state; June 6 for primary Yes
county;'30days; ~~ o'nn+
Deadline: April 4; primary: Registrar-at-large No durational Nov. 7 for general Tenn. May 4 (Pres. only#); Dead- October 6 Yes
line: July 3; primary: Aug. 3# in county seat residency reqUirements Nov. 6 for primary
Deadline: April 6 October 7 ~~I~~:~riax assessor- 1 yr. in state; Nov. 7* for general Texas Primary: May 6 sea x in county 6 mos. in city May S* for primary
Yes
Utah Deadline: September 1 October 27 County clerk 6 mos. in state; Nov. 7 for general Yes Primary: September 12 60 days in county Sept. 12 for primary
Vt. Deadline: September 2 November 4# Town, city or 90 days in state; Nov. 7 for general No Primary: September 5# village clerk 90 days in town Sept. 5 for primary
Va. Deadline: May 13 October 7# General registrar 6 mos. in state; Nov. 7 for general No Primary: June 13# 30 days in precinct and primary
Deadline: August 19 October 7 County auditor
1 yr. in state; Nov. 7 for general Wash. Primary: September 19 90 days in county; Sept. 19 for primary Yes
30 days in precinct
W. Va. Deadline: April 8
Primary: May 9 (P) October 7 Clerk of county court 160 y dr.a yins sinta ctoe;u nty aNnodv . p8r ifmora rgye neral Yes
Deadline: varies City or county board
S mos. in state; Nov. 7 for general Wis. March 15 to March 22 October 18 to 25 of election commis- Yes
Primary: April 4 (P) sioners or city clerks 10 days in precinct April 4 for primary
WyO. Deadline: August 7 City or county clerk
1 yr. in state; Nov. 7 for general Yes
Primary: August 22
October 23 SO days in county; Aug. 22 for primary
10 days in pr~cinct
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for those who turn 18 after the registratiop deadline but before tbe election and are marked by a *. All other states ~Iow those who baven't
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You must register by: Where to go/ Residency You must be
Can you
State register
primary election general election write/phone requirement 18 by absentee
Ala. Deadline: April 21 I County board 1 yr. in state; 6 mos.
October 27# in county; 3 mos. in Date of election No
Primary: May 2# (P) in county seat precinct
Alaska Deadline: August 7 October 23 Contact Lt. Gov. 1 yr. in state; 30 days Nov. 7 for general Yes
Primary: August 22 in Juneau in precinct Aug. 22 for primary
Ariz. Deadline: July 12 September 18 County recorder or 1 yr. in state; 30 days Nov. 6 for general Yes
Primary: September 12 justice of the peace in precinct , Sept. 11 fQr primary
Ark. Deadline: June 6 County clerk 12 mos. in state; 6 mos. Nov. 6 for general
Primary: June 27 October 17 in county seat in county; 1 mo. in June 26 for primary No
precinct
Calif. Deadline: April 13 September 14 County clerk or 90 days in state and Nov. 6 for general
Primary: June 6 (P) registrar of voters county; 54 in precinct June 5 for primary Yes
Colo. PDreiamdalirnye:: SAeupgteumstb 1e1r 12 October 6 ECloeucntitoyn c Cleormk;m Disesniovne r 332 m doasy. si nin s tparteec;i nct NSeopvt.. 71 2f ofro rg epnreimraal ry Yes
Conn. Nbyo mcoinna vteino tniso nm ade October 14 tToowwnn crleegrkis trar or 6 mos. in town Nov. 6' No
Del. Deadline: May 23 Dept. of Elections 1 yr. in state; 3 mos. in Nov. 7 for
Primary: June 13 October 21 in county seat county; 30 days, both elections No
precinct
D.C. D.C. board of No durational
,
No primary October 7 elections requirements Nov. 7 Yes
Fla. Deadline: Feb. 12; primary: County supervisor of 1 yr. in state; Nov. 6* for general
Mar. 14 (Pres. only). Dead- October 7 elections in county seat 6 mos. in county March 13* or Sept. 13*, No
line: Aug. 12: Prim.: Sept. 12 primaries
Ga. Deadline: June 19 County registrar 1 yr. in state; Nov. 7* for general
Primary: August 8 September 18 in county seat 6 mos. in county; Aug. 8* for primaries Yes
90 days in municipality
Hawaii Deadline: August 23 October 12 County clerk in
1 yr. in state
Nov. 6 for general
Primary: October 7 county seat Oct. 6 for primary Yes
Idaho Deadline: August 5 November 4 Coun ty clerk in 6 mos. in state; Nov. 7 for general
Primary: August 8 county seat 30 days in county Aug. 8 for primary Yes
Ill. In doubt In doubt County clerk or
election commissioner 6 mos. in state Nov. 7 Yes
Ind. Deadline: April 3 Clerk of circuit court 6 mos. in state; Nov. 7 for general
Primary: May 2 (P) October 9 or bd. of registration 60 days in township; May 2 for primary Yes
30 days in precinct
Iowa Deadline: May 27 October 28 City clerk or 6 mos. in state; Nov. 7 for general
Primary: June 6 county auditor 60 days in county June 6 for primary Yes
Kans. Deadline: July 11 October 17 County clerk or county 6 mos. in state; Nov. 6 for general
Primary: August 1 election commissioner 30 days in town or ward and primary Yes
Ky. Deadline: March 28 September 9 County clerk, bd. of 1 yr. in state; 6 mos. in Nov. 7 for general
Primary: May 23 registration in cities county; 60 days, May 23 for primary No
precinct ,
1 yr. in state;
La. Deadline: July 20 October 7 Nov. 7 for general
Primary: August 19 Parish registrar 6 mos. in county; Aug. 19 for primary No
3 mos. in precinct
Maine Deadline: June 9 to 16 Varies from Oct Registrar of voters 6 mos. in state; Nov. 7 for general
Primary: June 19# 27 to Nov. 6 or bd. of registration 3 mos. in county June 19 for primary Yes
Jog dov#n to the polls,
exercise your right to vote
by w.e. Wahlin
How about it, have you ,been contem­plating
getting into shape and exer­cising
- exercising your right to vote,
that is?
If you are at least eighteen years
old by election day or the day after,
try considering the responsibility of
relating your personal opinion to the
ballot box and your community.
Are you content tQ just sit and criti­cize
St. Paul's supe'r-mayor and his
wheeling-dealing ta'ctics, or would you
like tQ have some say in how .the city
is run? Perhaps you wholeheartedly
support 'Clark Kent' McCarty in his
mayormobile, would yQU cllTe to prQve
it by re-electing him to an .other term?
How ,about the sizzling h.ot race f.or
township treasurer back home, interested
in helping to determine the .outcome?
Possibly you're thinking your VQte
isn't that important. Have you ever ex­amined
the expenditures .of candidates
for public .office? Better yet, have you
ever asked a candida,te how imp.ortant
your vote is? Your vote is important ...
to the c.ountry, to the state, to the can­didate,
but most of all, to you. If you
care about the Hfe .of your community
and .others ,around you, yQur concern
will be voiced in the vote you cast.
Let's be honest, there is a lot to care
about. Take a look around. Are you will­ingto
become a pa'rt of the solutions
to the problems and troubles that face
us today? If you are, there are some im­portant
facts concerning voter eligi-bility
that you should become acquainted
with.
To be eligible to vote you must be
registered in the precinct .or community
where you maintain your permanent
address. Cities of over ten thousand
residents are by law compelled to main­tain
permanent voter registration files.
This means that in st. Paul you must be
registered to vote within your precinct
at least 'twenty days before any election.
Smaller cities of less than ten thousand
usually require y.oU to register at the
time you place your vote and not pre­vious
to the time of voting.
On either .occasion yQU must s'wear
under .oath that you have ,been a 'res­ident
of tha,t community ,for the speci­fied
number .of days and that you are
qualified as a citizen to vote. As a stu­dent
at Bethel you may choose to reg­ister
and vote in all of the city and pre­cinct
elections if you live within the
houndaries of St. Paul and decide your
perm,anent address is here.
However, if you live in Center, Idaho,
Pascal, Eagle, or Falcon Manors, yQur
registration would have to be within
the village .of Falcon Heights. Anyone
interested in this possibility may re­ceive
additional information by calling
the Village Office, l.ocatedat 1644 West
Larpenteur, at 644-5050.
New Dorm students. wishing to par­ticipate
in elections and considering the
New Dorm as their permanent residence
must register within the jurisdiction of
Arden Hills. The Village Office in Arden
Hills is located at 1450 West Highway
[is~J' CAeCA"" , .. FASTER SERVICE
96 and my be reached by calling 633-
5676.
Two important factors to remember
are: you must have been a resident of
the precinct you wish to vote in for at
least 30 days prior to the election; and
you may declare yourself as having
only one permanent address. If you
have difficulty determining a perman­ent
address, the Voter Registraton Bur­eau
suggests you 'consider the precinct
you reside and sleep in as your perma­nent
address. Remember, you may con­sider
your home before college as your
permanent address and exercise your
voting privilege there.
For all students of Bethel College
interested in participating in elections
in st. Paul, registrars from the St. Paul
Voter Registration Bureau 'will be on
campus Monday, Feb. 7, ,from 8:30 to 3:30
to register all eligible voters for the up­coming
city and national elections. Reg­istraton
is required only once, provid­ing
a person does not change his name,
his address, or fail to vote in the nat­ional
election every four years.
The campaign to register voters at
Bethel has been undertaken by the Stu~
dent Senate in cooperation with the
Minnesota Youth Citizenship Fund. To
celebrate the successful completion of
the membership drive throughout the
Twin City area, a rock festiv,al has been
planned by the M.Y.C.F. for all voters
eighteen to twentY-Qne years of age who
registered during the drive. Watch for
posters explaining the location and date
of the festival.
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Founders Week geared for the individual
"By My Spirit" will be the theme of
Bethel Founders Week, Jan. 31 through
Feb. 4, with the emphasis, 'More than
you are - All that He (God) planned
(for you).'
The conference .annually draws more
than one thousand guests from across
the nation and Canada for its annual
seminars, noting the passing of another
year of Bethel's history.
"This year Founders Week is going
to be entirely geared to enrich our lives
as individuals," said Mr. Harold Christ­enson,
Assistant Vice President of the
college, director of Church Relations,
and Founders Week General Chairman.
"It will have as its goal to share with you
from a number of dif,ferent ways those
precepts and ideas that will deepen your
spiritual commitment and .assist you in
knowing and understanding yourself."
The week will kick off with a Histori­cal
Banquet Monday evening at 6:30.
Speaker at the meeting will be Dr. Ed­mund
P. Clowney, President of Westmin­ster
Theological Seminary and original
contributor to Eutychus in Christianity
Today.
Dr. William E. Hulme, professor of
pastoral counselling at Luther Seminary,
will lead the devotional hour each day
from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. He will speak on
the subject of God working in our per­sonal
lives. We will be seeing this
through the book of Job. His book on
Job entitled, "Dialogue in Despair" is
a real classic.
The daily worship hour, from 11:15
to 12:15, will be led by Dr. D. Stuart
Briscoe. Born and educated in England,
Dr. Briscoe was instrumental in initia­ting
youth outreach in England by es­tablishing
"coffee-bar" ev.angelism.
Bitble studies led by Bethel Faculty
members will be a morning feature Tues­day
through Thursday, from 8:30 to 9:30.
The women's session will be held at
this same time, and will include such
speakers as Dr. Briscoe, Dr. P. H. Augus­tine,
well known lecturer in universities
and cities throughout the U.S. on emo­tional
development of youth and marital.
problems in America, and Ethel Bar­ret,
nationally known speaker, dramatic
reader and "story-teller".
The single in-depth study each after­noon
from 2 to 4:30 with audience inter­action
is a new feature in the FounderS'
Week format. Tuesday and Thursday
afternoons will be devoted to devotional
aspects of the week's emphasis with Dr.
Edmund P. Clowney speaking Tuesday
on "The Holy Spirit in the Life of the
Church", and Dr. Donald BIoesch of
Dubuque ·Theological Seminary on
Thursday, speaking on "The Crisis of
Piety". Wednesday will be Mr. Charles
(Tremendous) Jones, a nationally known
Christian businessman, on the subject
of how to motivate ourselves and how to
enrich the lives of others by motivation.
Mr. Alec MacKenzie, Management Con­sultant,
Chappaqua, N. Y., will lead the
Friday session on "Time-the Christian
Leader's Most Critical Resource".
The evening sessions are open to the
public and will be devoted to great in­spirational
rallies on different phases
of our spiritual ministries. In addition
to Clowney, Augustine, and Barrett men­tioned
before, the sessions will feature
Congressman John B. Anderson, third
ranking Republican leader in the U. S.
Congress and author of the book "Be­tween
Two Worlds", a warm, spirited
layman who shares his faith most ably,
and Rev. William Pannel, Vice-president
and director of Campus Ministries for
Tom Skinner Associates, former associ­ate
\\lice pl.1esident . for Youth For Christ
International, and author of My Friend,
the Enemy.
With such a broad field of able speak­ers,
this Founders Week may be one of
the most enriching ever.
MPIRG seeks to further student interests
by Teri James
The abuse and waste of our environ­ment
has caused great concern among
many of us. At times it seems that our
protestations against pollution or other
activities which upset ecological cycles
are unheard by those who have the pow­er
to enforce corrective legislation. One
way to gain the attention of legislators
is to become involved in the Minnesota
Public Interest Research G r 0 u p
(MPIRG). MPIRG isa student financed
and ·controlled group of scientists, re­searchers,
and lawyers which represents
over 80,000 students on nineteen Minne­sota
college and university campuses.
Elected student representatives from
those schools make up the board of
directors. MPIRG studies and advises
reforms that will improve environmental
conditions.
MPIRG has already been a'ble to ob­tain
new snowmobile regulations. The
new regulations require that by Febru-.
ary 1, 1974, no snowmobile manufac­tured
for sale in Minnesota may produce
more than 73 decibels of sound measured
at 50 feet. Charles K. Dayton, legal di­rector
of MPIRG, points out that at the
present time the noise level of most
snowmobiles is enough to cause hearing
damage and that drivers should wear
ear plugs. The new regulations would
not only keep the noise level down, but
would also prohibit alteration of any
snowmobile >that would increase its speed
and power, through removal of mufflers.
Another issue that MPIRG is research­ing
is the timber cutting within the
Boundary Waters Canoe Area. This area
is the largest virgin wilderness left east
of the Rockies. MPIRG objects to the
timber cutting 'because the Boundary Wa­ters
Canoe Area is a popular place for
tourists, tourism being the major indus­try
in northern Minnesota. Also, 90
percent of the timber will only be used
for pulpwood. Susan Kline, MPIRG staff
member, adds that there is already a
surplus of pulpwood in Minnesota and
the timber from this area is not need­ed.
MPIRG has been .active in investig.a­ting
the differences of !food prices
throughout the Twin Cities, the com­pliance
of industries to the 1899 Refuse
Act which requires permits before an
industry can dump materials into navi­gable
waters, and the new Minnesota
Air Implementation Plan.
In order to continue the various
studies, MPIRG must be funded by
those colleges that are members. Bethel
College can become a member of MPIRG
by adding only $3.00 to each student's
present fees. The money would con­tr~
bute to research being done and
Bethel would benefit from the reforms
carried out.
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by Bob Miko
"Marriage is the 'school' of community, created 'by God, in
which man can 'learn' that he cannot live as an individual,
but only in so far as he is bound up with the other, as also
that each one of us has received his or her own life from such
a connection between two persons."
-Emil Brunner, The Divine Imperative.
As I look forward to my forthcoming marriage, January
29, I reflect on many things. My mind swirls like a kaleido­scope
bringing to the surface doubts, hopes, dreams, anger.
love, fear and Jan.
I see my life unfolding like a flower in the mist of a warm
spring morning. I long to open myself - to give without fear
of rejection .... to receive without feeling as if someone
feels sorry for me.
To know someone . . . . "Know" is an interesting word.
It's not an assent to a proposition - it'S' a relationship. Like
"eternal ' life" is not expressing a magnitude but a quality of
life.
"I know in whom I believe."
The sexual union is spoken of as knowing.
Whore .and prostitute are used to describe our unfaithful­ness
to our Groom.
But in the atmosphere that prevails today, the sexual union
has become a bodily function, not unlike that of relieving one's
self at the toilet.
The "experts" tell us that we need to seek release from our
"bodily desires", by masturbation (I'm using "masturbation"
to mean - sexual release other than the sexual union that
takes place in marriage, i.e., self-masturbation, mutual mas­turbation
between male-male, female-female, and male­female).
Much more rich is our Creator's norm for sex. We have
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brutally ripped sex out of the context in which God intended
- distorting it for our own purposes. What is supposed to be
an out-going, opening experience between two people in a
troth relationship, has become a selfish "I" orientated bodily
function.
And we as "Christians" miss the whole concept of what
God intended sex to be when we ask questions like "How f.ar
is too far?" and "Is petting wrong?". We look at the act -
completely out of context of totality of life.
I struggled for a long time 'with these two questions. Much
to my own frustration, I assure you. I would cut up the body
into areas of "on limits" - "off limits" and figure out ways
to make the "on limits" areas as responsive as the "off limits"
areas. I was doing -and struggling with the same questions
as was the person who was walking in the "dark" and I was
coming up with the same "answers."
I asked some new questions, "Is this what Jesus went through
when he was my age?" "Did He ask the same questions?" "Did
He have sex drives that needed to be released?" "Was Jesus
married?"
There is a freedom in walking in the light of the truth. I
found that I was distorting God's good creation by my do's and
don'ts. This wasn't how God wanted me to live. I am free from
the law - so why make other laws to bind me? What makes
me want a set of rules and regulations to live by? Is it because
I was alfraid to walk with God? To live to His glory?
I used to think that sex is "ok" if you "love" one another.
But as I grew older I saw what "love" was. Love isn't a feeling
of intense desire, (I love me and I want you or I love my car).
Love is a word that demands action, kinda' like "faith without
works is dead," so love without action is nothing (God so
loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son ... ).
When I found myself saying "I love you, Jan," I was saying,
"Jan, I want to share my life with you, to have you to talk
to and pray with. I will be faithful to you." I never asked· Jan to
marry me, she just said, "I love you, too."
Now as I look back on our relationship I can see how Jan
and I saw the danger in being involved sexually before mar­riage.
We saw others mistake sexual desire for love. In others
we watched love turn to lust, destroying the relationship they
once had. We had to decide where our relationship was going
to go. We chose to follow where the Lord would lead us, pray­ing
together about our problems, hopes and desires. It's been
a most interesting courtship going from Berkeley California,
through Fargo, North Dakota, around the Twin Cities, and
finally ending in marriage in Lorraine, Kansas. Throughout
our relationship we have seen God in action working to bring
us to this point in our lives.
Thank you Lord for providing for our daily needs.
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TO' view the American system Df pDlitics frDm Dutside the
system is to' study an idealistic fDrm Df peDple regulatiDn. TO'
view the American system Df pDlitics frDm within the system
is to' study a chaotic fDrm of peDple regulatiDn.
In NDvember Df this year, 1972, the citizens Df (suppDsedly)
the greatest natiDn Dn earth will elect the man whO' they
believe will UphDld the American principles as they, the citi­zens,
view them. BefDre that electiDn date "rDlls arDund",
it is the duty Df every vDter to' examine, CDmpare, then judge
each Df the presidential candidates as to' their merits. This
prDcedure is essential if the American peDple are to' elect a
man qualified to' lead this natiDn during the ensuing fDur
years.
In reviewing each Df the candidates, the public is fDrced
to' submit itself to' the American system Df mass media. In
dDing this they can Dften be misled in their judgments. Walter
Lippmann has written, "The notiDn that public DpiniDn can
and will decide all issues is in appearance very demDcratic.
In practice it undermines and destrDYs demDcratic gDvern­ment.
FDr when everybDdy is suppDsed to' have a judgment
abDut everything, nDbDdy in fact is gDing to' knDw much abDut
anything .... The Dnly effect Df inviting everybDdy to' judge
every public questiDn is to' cDnfuse everybDdy abDut every­thing."
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Jan. 25- Siring Quartet frDm MinnesDta Orchestra
8 p.m. at Augsburg CDllege
''':'Jan. 31-WDDdwind Quintet frDm MinnesDta Orchestra
8 p.m. at Augsburg CDllege
'·":'Jan. 25-MinnesDta Orchestra WDDdwind Quintet
8 p.m. at O'Shaughnessy EducatiDnal Center Audi­tDrium
':':'Jan. 25- Macalester TriO' CDncert
8 p.m. at Macalester CDllege
Jan. 30-Ivan MDravec, pianist
8 p.m. at O'Shaughnessy
·:":'Jan. 20-23, 28-30--Edyth Bush Theater-"YDu're a GDDd
Man Charlie BrDwn"
8 p.m. at Hamline University
':':'Jan. 17-March 25-Friars Dinner Theater­"
HellO', DDlly"
':":'Jan. 23-GDrdDn LightfDDt
7 and 10 p.m. at O'Shaughnessy
':·Feb. 7-Bethel CDllege ChDir HDmecDming CDncert
8 p.m. at Bethel Seminary Chapel
Tickets $1.00, $2.00
Mr. Lippmann is hinting very strDngly that in this "dem­Dcratic"
sDciety we, in actuality, are nDt qualified to' make
decisiDns Dn public questiDns. It wDuld appear that we, the
American peDple, are putting Durselves in dDuble jeDpardy.
First, we are nDt qualified to' judge, yet we must. Then, the
perSDn we elect is nDt qualified to' "rule," yet we must give
him the respDnsibility.
SO' what dO' we dD? DO' we stand arDund in Dur blindness
and be led dDwn the path to' "destructiDn"? This seems to'
be the path we are headed Dn, because peDple will nDt evalu­ate
that which they read and hear. PeDple dDn't seem to' realize
that the same infDrmatiDn can be repDrted in different ways.
Take, fDr an example, pDll results. The Republicans
claim that they hDld 28 states with 243 electDral vDtes. They
claim that the DemDcrats hDld 11 states with 93 electDral vDtes.
Nine states and 176 electDral vDtes still lie undecided at this
time.
When turning to' the DemDcratic pDll, we find that they
claim 19 states and 216 electDral vDtes. They cDncede 17 states
and 102 electDral vDtes to' the Republicans. They say that 12
states and 194 electDral vDtes are still "up fDr grabs."
This is the same infDrmatiDn, interpreted twO' entirely
different ways, by thDse whO' will prDfit frDm the result. It
can be dDne nDt Dnly with statistical infDrmatiDn, but alsO'
with subjective repDrting.
This is why I am gDing to' take a (hDpefully) objective IDDk
at each Df the presidential candidates and view their merits.
I hDpe to' mDtivate YDU to' take intO' accDunt that which YDU
read abDut each Df the men. Then YDU can determine what is
fact and what is repDrters' distDrtiDn. We can nDt ask each
Df the candidates what they are all abDut, but we can take
what infDrmatiDn is available and make a ratiDnal decisiDn as
to' whDm to' elect.
':":'Feb. 14-An Evening with . . . The Imperials!!
7:30 p.m. at Bethel CDllege FieldhDuse
Tickets $2.00, $2.50 at the dDDr
"":'A Bethel male came intO' my Dffice yesterday to' ask me if
Interim was always this exciting. I told him to' buzz Dff and
let me gO' back to' sleep .
. ,. :'The St. Paul Winter Carnival will be held Jan. 28-Feb. 6,
and its theme will be "A Salute to' SDuthern HDspitality".
First event Df the Carnival will be the annual snDwmDbile
race frDm Winnipeg to' St. Paul. When the first driver ar­rives
in St. Paul Dn Friday, Jan. 28, the Winter Carnival will
Dfficially Dpen. CDrDnatiDn Df King BDreas Rex will be Fri­day,
Jan. 28, with the Grand Parade the next afternDDn,
Dn Saturday. Queen Df the Snows cDrDnatiDn is to' be Tues­day,
Feb. 1. The TDrchlight Parade will be held Dn the eve­ning
Df Saturday, Feb. 5. The Winter Carnival Ice Palace
is nDW being erected Dn KellDgg Mall, Dn the CDrner Df
KellDgg and Cedar Streets near dDwntDwn St. Paul. A
Winter Carnval buttDn will admit YDU to' SDme Df the events
Df the festival. See the special sectiDn Df next Sunday's
Pioneer Press fDr further details Df time and place.
':":'Walter Hickel, fDrmer Secretary Df the InteriDr, will address
a rally at Augsburg CDllege, in Melby Hall, at 8 p.m. Dn
Jan. 22. Hickel, whDse recent bDDk, Who Owns America
Dutlines the changes he wDuld like to' see in the American
pDlitical prDcess, will speak Dn precinct caucuses and the
envirDnment. Tickets will be $1.00 fDr students and $2.00 fDr
adults. They can be Dbtained by calling 920-5750 Dr will be
available at the dDDr.
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Conference annual meetings
share spiritual enthusiasm
by Dan Peterson
Whether realized Qr not by many
Bethel students, this past mQnth has
_been one of great impQrtance in PQlicy
making not 'Only for Qur Qwn interests
here at Bethel, but alsO' f.Qr the wider
SCQpe Qf the entire Baptist General CQn­ference
This was 'a result of the annual
mind-year board sessiQns of the Baptist
General CQnference held at Trinity Bap­tist
church here in St. Paul. Amidst
business matters of utmost impQrtance,
however, it is refreshing ,and exciting
to' hear abQut the undaunted mQving
Qf the Lord and His HQly Spirit among
various phases Qf ministry in Qur Con­ference.
As a point of commencement here,
it should be stated that Bethel CQllege
was mentiQned time after time as 'One
of the places in Which the HQly Spirit
is si-gnifilcantly mQving. Perha,ps it is
'Often difficult to' notIce from the inside
amidst the hecHc student life, but many
peQple are notioing significant results
and ha'ppenings from students whO' are
definitely turned Qn fQr Jesus.
In lQoking at soOme 'Of the other CQn­ference
programs and ministries, it is
alsO' exciting to' hear that things are
really happening all around the wQrld.
_ Literal revival fires have been set in
Ethiopia, the Philippines, and perhaps
mQst significantly in Qur neighbQring
land of Canada. Churches in central
Canada have welcomed such growth and
infilling of the Spirit that buildings are
nQt large enQugh to' hQuse the thousands
of people questing f.Qr a renewed spirit
in Ghrist. Hundreds Qf laymen, stu­dents,
and even pastQrs are experienc­ing
a veritable baptism Qf t'he Holy
Spirit.
Such enthusiasm has nQt been a­voiding
Qur United states, even though
the LQrd may wQrk in different ways.
In a recent CQnference fall Sund,ay
schoQl enlargement prO' gram, SCQres of
Sunday SchoQls experienced 'a real re­vival,
many dQubling their attendance,
while others have left the fQur w'alls
'Of the church and succeeded in canvas­sing
entire cities, virtually thQusands
Qf peQple, 'On 'behalf of their church
and Jesus Christ. Individual churches
have likewise become enthusiastic 'Over
MISSION SHARE, a Conference funded
drive prQgram which is designed to
raise money fQr expenses of variQus
CQnference projects, including Bethel
College. Not only are individual churches
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excited, but entire states and districts
are seeing new chul1ches 'bQrn, and re­vival
of spiritual interest where once
there was nQne at all.
NQt only is 'Our Oonference witness­ing
renewed spiritual interest, there
is a'lso a renewed interest in the social
asped of 'Our ministry, especially in
inne'r 'City 'areas. A new prO' gram with
some limited funding is designed to
particuIoarly help any PQssible social
ministry deemed important and wQrk-able.
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In additiQn to this new develQpment,
the OQnference is attempting to use the
mass media, including film, cassette,
and radio, in new ways to relate Jesus
Christ.
Final'ly, there is a great deal Qf an­ticip'atiQn
for the next annual meeting
of the CQnference this June 'alt the Camp
'Of the WOQds, SpeculatQr, New York:
Adopting the theme "LQQk W Qrld, I
Love YQU," thousands of CQnference
Baptists will gather at probably Qne Qf
the most beautifU'l camp grQunds in
QUI" cQuntry to' share ideas, business, and
no doubt leave with a new desire to
demQnstrate to 'a wQrld desperately
10Qking for it .that there is IQve and CQn­cern
among GQd's people, even amQng
thQsecalled CQnference Baptists.
Becky teaches
deaf children
how to read
by Judy Harrington
Becky PetersQn, a freshman here at
Bethel, is teaching deaf children to
read during Interim. She is teaching at
Jefferson Elementary SchQQI in St. Paul,
assistant to a WQman who te,aches groups
of eight, 11, and 12-13 112 year oIds.
"I managed to' get this opportunity
through Phil Carlson, myadvisQr, who
knew the teacher," Becky said. "It's part
of my CQurse 'YQuth in the Inner City'.
Actually, it's not an inner city schQQI,
but a number of the children come from
homes which are quite poor."
Teaching deaf children can be very
frustrating at times, according to Becky.
Often a simple instructiQn has to' be re­peated
fQur Qr five times.
It took me 20 minutes one day to' ex­plain
a tiny sentence to Qne little girl.
Their attention span is SO' shQrt and they
remember so little," she commented.
One Qbstacle Becky overcame was that
Qf communicatiQn. She was fQrced to'
learn the manual alphabet as fast as
possible.
"It's nQt just a matter Qf learning the
alphabet. It's a whQle new language
and way of cQmmunicating. And the kids
'talk' SO' fast!" Becky said.
MQtivation is Qne key problem amQng
the deaf children at Jefferson, Becky
said she feels. Children are fairly unre­sPQnsive.
They seem to' have little desire
to' learn to read or speak. Being unable
to hear the language sPQken and decide
what "sounds right", they have an added
handicap in learning grammar.
"A little bQY handed mea nQte the
other day saying he liked my pantsuit.
It read, 'Pretty pantsuit your'. And an­Qther
student wrote me a nQte asking
me to' be his friend. It said 'DO' yQU have
a new friend to' me?'," she explained,
citing an example.
With so many prQblems to' surmQunt,
it seems Becky's wQrk WQuld be unsatis­fying
and unrewarding, but that's nQt
the way she looks at it.
"The reward comes when a student
finally makes a breakthrough. Then all
the wQrk and frustratiQn is more than
wQrth it. And I think it's SO' much more
rewarding than wQrking with ,average
school children," Becky remarked.
If possible, Becky plans to' gO' into
this type of work after graduatiQn.
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People's Podiullt
Dear Editor:
Your editorial of October 29, 1971
asked a valid question of whether we
stiU have a responsibility to the Viet­namese
people. I agree with you that
we have a continued obligation but not
militarily.
Your claim that a "pull-out" is a
"cop out" is true. Withdrawal is a
denial of Christian involvemen.t, when­ever
the call 'Of God is for engagement.
However, there are times for withdrawal
and retreat. Jesus recognized times of
flight and disengagement. When he
was threatened he "withdrew," (Mat­thew
12:15), "hid" (John 8:59), "es­caped"
(John 10:39), "no longer traveled
'Openly" (J'Ohn 12: 15), etc. Many other
Biblical .passages support the concept
of "retreat" and "withdrawal" ·as valid
acts f'Or p'Olitically aware 'and sensitive
people.
Contrary to your opinion and the
public impression, the United States of
America has NOT withdrawn from its
involvement in the Vietnamese war.
President Nixon is in the process of
pulling off his greatest public relations
coup. In a m'Ost skillful way he is
creating the iillusion that the war is
"winding down," "phasing out," "Viet­namizing."
In reality we have not
stopped the war machine. Only
brought some of "our boys" home. Death
Jan. 11, 1972
Dear Bob,
I 'couldn.'t put everything I wanted
to say on a postcard, so I hope this will
suffice. I was really moved by this
experience in the Castle Church of
Wittenburg. This is the best way I
could express it. The unity that has come
to the College Choir is indescribalble.
God's love radiating thr'Ough us and
throughout us is a beautiful thing. I
say "Hi" to you from everyone in
choir. Stay close -to God.
East Germany.
In Christ,
Bruoe Hoag
We've just arrved at the Castle Church
of Wittenburg, where Martin Luther
posted his 95 theses. The church is
cold and damp, and in its pews sit 170
Bethel students. President Lundquist
stands in the pulpit above Martin Luth­er's
tomb. Although Christianity, as we
know it, is forbidden in this land behind
the Iron Curtain, we meet together for a
few moments of meditation and praise
to God. President Lundquist reminds
us of the faith of Martin Luther and his
commitment to Jesus Christ. While the
College Choir sings, "Come, Soothing
and destruction continues in an un­abated
manner. It is easily documented
that bombing tonage has increased; ref­ugee
and civiHan casualty 'and death
continue on high levels; and the devel��opment
of the automated battlefield
which requires fewer American troops
yet neatly programs death for the en­emy
has immeasura1bly increased. The
only thing that has changed is the
color of skin of people who die.
I am amazed at your conclusion in
light of your own admission that we
(1) were wrong going into the Viet­namese
war, (2) created irrepairable
damage, (3) divided neighbors against
neighbors, (4) caused moral degener­ation.
It is difficult for me to under­stand
how you justify a "continued
wrong." To continue a wrong is irre­sponsible
'and unforgivable. I believe
that Hethel College teaches the need
to (1) repent of wrong, (2) p,reserve
God's creation, (3) reconcile neighbor
to neighbor, and (4) realize that new
beginnings 'are possible for man and
government. Therefore, the churoh
should be the bridge of love that en­hances
society, preserves God's cre­ations
and enables man.
This war is doing the opposite - so
let's dump the true enemy.
Sincerely in Peace,
Dick Westby
Death," the President places flowers
on Martin Luther's tomb:
Come, soothing death, come sweet rep'Ose_
Bear me away in gladness,
Far from this world of sadness.
Ah, come, I wait for thee.
Come soon and set me free.
Soon may my eyelids close,
Come sweet repose.
Come, soothing death, come sweet repose.
Jesus, I'll stand before thee,
With angel hosts adore Thee,
There in that Land of Light.
Now to Thee, goodnight.
Soon may my eyelids c,lose,
Come, sweet repose.
Spiritually, this was a great experi­ence
for me. Communism can't keep
God's people from worshipping Him. It
helped me to appreciate freedom of re­ligi'On
in the United States. It made me
thank God for our freedom. I under­stand
better now why freedom of wor­ship
was so important to our founding
fathers. We as Christians are truly "one
in the spirit."
Bethel students
present
("("A Time To Sow"
Nine Bethel students were in Chicago
over this weekend, presenting the play,
"A Time to Sow", to churches in the
area. The play, written by Bruce Law­son,
dramatizes the efforts of John
Alexis Edgren in starting Bethel Semi­nary.
It was given as an "alumni deal"
according to members of the cast.
Director Bob Bryant hand picked his
cast less than two weeks ago. Bill Anker­berg
starred as John Edgren, with Polly
Jacobson as his wife Anna. Jon Lewis
played his brother Hjalmar. Other mem­bers
of the cast were Tom Billigmeier,
Denny Whitlock, John Carlson (Director
of Alumni Affairs), Dave McKnight, Pete
Enchelmyer, and Bob Bryant himself as
Dr. Northrup.
"Having less than two weeks to whip
this thing together made it pretty
rough," said Polly Jacobson.
The play was presented Friday evening
at Skokie Valley Baptist, Saturday ev­ening
at Elim Baptist, and Sunday morn­ing
at South Shore Baptist Church.
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SUllrise (III tlte New eompus
All systems are "go" for four of the six total units
for the college academic complex on the Arden Hills
campus.
Construction is proceeding on schedule.
Plans are formulating at this time to occupy the
classroom, art, music, library j dining and gymnasiumj
auditorium units by September 1 and to begin the
1972-73 academic year in Arden Hills.
In an announcement to faculty and staff members
early in December, Dr. Carl Lundquist, . president,
said:
"The Lord has not allowed us to get a glimpse of
the whole year ahead at once but has been pleased
to let us see about a week at a time. And that has
been enough.
"This has made the college relocation a" continuing
adventure of faith. Bricks and mortar and blueprints
have been mixed with prayer and hope and commit­ment
to our sovereign God."
The Board of Regents authorized the issuance of
$6 million in bonds at its December meeting which was
approved and accepted by the firm of McMahon and
Hoban, Inc., bonding underwriters of St. Louis. The
issue was approved at 8% % and will be refinanced in
four years.
Harvey De Vries, vice president of public affairs,
said that $1,080,000 is expected from the Mission:��SHARE
program of the Baptist General Conference;
$2 million is expected from sale of the Snelling Avenue
campus; and that $500,000 in current pledges also can
be applied toward college relocation. This reduces the
principle to $2.5 million to be raised.
Federal loans for dormitory housing are being
sought with further announcements expected soon.
Exchange students at Bethel
find conditions poor to excellent
by Brenda Barth
The new faces of five exchange stu­dents
are at Bethel for the Interim
session. The faces are from Westmin­ster
College, Sioux Falls College, Ham­line,
Case Western Reserve, and Augus­tana
College. The European tour groups
have fifteen additional travelers from
Ta'bor College in Hillsboro, Kansas. In
the exchange prog·ram, nineteen Bethel
students can be found dispersed through­out
the campuses of Calvin College, Ham­line,
St. Catherine, Case Western Re­serve,
Theil College, Huron College, and
Alaska Methodist University.
Some of the unfamiliar faces expressed
their reactions to Bethel.
"Bethel is a conservativ'e college with
too many rules restricting one's social
life," said Frank Wilson, sophomore at
Case Western Reserve. "I came for In­terim
because I had never been to the
Twin Cities. At Bethel I feel separated
from the urban life." Case Western Re­serve
is a private university with 4000
undergraduates. "There are no simil­arities
between Case Reserv'e and Belth­el.
Bethel is definitely not better," he
remarked. Frank, majoring in Comput­er
Engineering, is enrolled in the Com­puter
Programming Course for Interim.
"My life-style differs f,rom that of most
people at Bethel," he .explained. "Ev­eryone
seems friendlier on Ithe surface
but I couldn't stand it here fDr more
than a month."
Deb Patterson finds Bethel favora,ble
to her expectations. "Students here are
dedicated in their Christian lives. I'm
amazed at the lunchroom conversations
I've heard; everything centers on Christ,"
she said. Deb is a sociology major at
Sioux Falls College. "I enjoy my course
in Charismatic Christianity because it's
so interesting and I've never had this
type of opportunity. I'm impressed by
the concern 'Of the instructors for their
students." Reflecting 'On a previous Deb,
also a member of the Deeper Life team
in October, she reflected, "I was dis­appointed
with some of the reaction of
Bethel students to the Deeper Life
team. There was an institutional pride
that judged us team members by its
standards. I feel we were misunder­stood."
Westminster College in Pennsylvania
sent Bruce Ekin to Bethel to study En­counter
wth Social PrDblems. "I like
ten
Bethel and appreciate the Christian at­titudes.
Everything is on a more personal
basis than what I've experienced at
Westminster. One impression I have is
the chapel situation. It's a good idea that
it isn't compulsory, but there's nothing
to do when everything else is closed,"
Bruce commented.
Bev Jacobson from Hamline can be
found in Spanish House. Marianne Brek-ke,
senior at Augustana College in
Sioux Falls, is studying Sociology at
Bethel.
"An increased interest is evident in
the second year of the Interim Ex­change
prog·ram," said Phil Carlson, dir­ector
of Interim. "Enrollment to and
from other colleges is up. Last year
only three Bethel students participated
in the exchange program."
SHOW ME cast excited
about complete gospel musical
A group 'Of students, most of whom
are from Bethel College, have grouped
,together to put on one of the newest
of the Christian musicals, SHOW ME.
This production may be a lot of things,
but bashful it isn't. If there are bushes,
SHOW ME won't be seen beating around
them. Its total honesty may shake you
a little, but you won't forget it.
Billed as "an exciting new love and
concern musical about Jesus," SHOW
ME has the nerve to poke some very
pointed fun at the sanctimonious hyp­ocrisy
of today's establishment church.
At the same time, however, it depicts
beautifully the changes which true con­version
and unselfish witnessing can
bring to a person's life.
Jimmy and Carol Owens created SHOW
ME partially 'because they were im­pressed
by the success 'Of other religious
musicals on the current scene. And yet,
this can not be dubbed as another jump
on the gospel rock bandwagon. Shows
like "Superstar" and "Tell It Like It
Is" have had their impact, and for good
reasons. But none of these have so
specifically sought to move the listener
through the actual conversion experi­ence.
It's the Christians versus the non-be­lievers
right from the start of SHOW
ME. Chris and Patty, played by Tim
Johnson and Judy Feuk, are two young
churchgoers who bemoan the fact that
they seem unable to reach peDple WhD
aren't Christians with a real personal
kind of witness. Their non-Christian
counterpart, Joey (played by Martin
Mauk) , has his reasons for not wanting
to listen. One of his solos goes: "I met
a man who called me brother, preachin'
'bout loving one another. Just when
I thought I could dig it, that man turned
out to be a bigot."
Joey has a couple of friends, played
by Dave Shaw and Judy Allison, who
are more than willing to show him
ways out of his searching dilemma. How
a'bout drugs? Astrology? Meditation?
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climax is reached when Joey !forces
himself to face reality and the result
is a simple, yet very moving conversa­tion
with God.
lighting and choreography with a multi­media
presentation produced by Mr.
James Treece.
The non-believer may not immediately
and obviously repent, but he will prob­ably
feel the faint stirrings of change
beginning inside.
SHOW ME is supplemented by a choral
group of fifteen who play various Chris­tian
roles. A close look is taken at the
different functions of the church. For
instance, the Church Board, Ladies Mis­sionary
Society and the Youth Sponsors
each have their place within the music.
Finishing touches are added by special
Perhaps the most vital factor in SHOW
ME is that it a,bsolutely demands some
kind of response. The viewer may laugh
with embarrassed recognition ,as he sees
his phony religious self 'On stage, con­vincingly
superficial. He may want to
cry with conviction when he realizes how
many opportunities for real Christian
witness have already passed him by.
SHOW ME presents a dramatic con­frontation
between the doubting, search­ing
youth and today's establishment
church. Neither group has the answer.
But there is an answer, and March 4
at 8 p.m., in the Bethel Fieldhouse, this
answer might be put across through
SHOW ME.
Dramatists learn Snow White, how to imagine
by Christy Taber
Imagine!
A tiny red door that leads under a hill,
Beneath roots and bright stones
And pebbly rill.
Imagine!
A quaint little knocker and shoe-scraper too,
A curious carved key
Waiting for you.
Imagine!
Tiptoe on doormat, you're turning the key,
The red door would open
And there you'd be ...
Imagine!
Shut the door tightly so no one should see,
And no one would know then
Where you would be ...
Imagine if you can!
Creative Dramatics for Children class has entered the
little red door. Students are learning how to expand their
own imaginations in order to become more creative individuals
themselves and to be able to relate to the thought patterns
of children. Students have been dividing their time between
simply learning how to imagine and producing a play entitled
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings are spent
learning the art of imagination. Students have found out
how it feels to be bacon sizzling, popcorn popping, and
leaves blown about by the wind. When Professor Donald
Rainbow says, "Take space, class", each students finds his
own area and when he says, "Curtain", each does his own thing.
The emphasis here is not on realism but on self !fulfillment.
When a student feels he himself has felt a role adequately,
no matter how ilt might look to outsiders, he has done the
assignment correctly.
Readings of stories and poetry often set the imaginations
going. Sometimes the students are given a basic line and
individually allowed to create their own characterizations, often
becoming so involved, they think up life stories for them­selves.
The study is divided into three concentrations: pantomime,
characterization and dialogue.
Tuesday and Thursday mornings the class observes the
creative imaginations of fourth graders with whom Professor
Rainbow works. Many of the students plan to work with
children in the future. By watching these kids' express them­selves
they are learning how children think and feel. One
student was surprised to note how the children were just as
enthusiastic about their imagination lessons as recess time.
While mornings are devoted to free creativity, afternoons
are filled with play practices. Every student is an actor and
on one of three committees: sets, properties, or costumes.
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" starring Sharon Eisfeld
as Snow White, Grace T~ude as Queen Brangomair and Steve
Larson as Prince Florimond will be presented to the public
at Northwestern, Saturday evening, Jan. 29, in 7 p.m. and 9
p.m. performances. ,The Dramatics class requests that faculty
and their families attend the earlier performance and college
students wait for the later one. Tickets will be fifty cents
and probably won't be sold at the door.
During Founders Week the students will perform twice a
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Charismatic Christianity
explores role of Holy Spirit
by Marshall Shelley
Outside it was so cold the little hairs
froze in the students' noses as they
hurried toward the large church build­ing.
The skin on their faces was just
beginning to stiffen as they reached
the door.
Once inside, the students' first im­pression
was the warmth, not only the
temperature, but also the attitude of
the large crowd of people who were
gathered in the basement of St. Albert
the Great Catholic Church.
The students are part of the Charis­matic
Christianity class being taught
at Bethel during Interim by Dr. Alfred
Glenn and Dr. Robert Stein.
Students have been visiting several
"pentecostal" services in their study
of the charismatic movement and the
"gifts of the Spirit." The worshippers
at the service probably would not care
to be called "pentecostals" as they might
have been in the past, but instead would
prefer to be known simply as a Christ­ian
fellowship of believers.
En:thusiastic singing was the first
thing the students noticed. Some Bap­tist
c' urches could learn quite a bit a­bout
running a song service from these
people.
Speaking in tongues, prophecy and
singing in tongues were also part of the
program. Even though there were about
200 people at the service, many were
eager to share experiences they had
during the past week and present prayer
requests.
Bethel students have gone to such
places at Compassion, Inc., Daystar and
the New Testament Church in Edina as
well as St. Albert's in order to see the
"gifts of the Spirit" in action.
The purpose of the course is to
"study the role of the Holy Spirit in the
believer's life," said Dr. Stein. "We
want to look critically but lovingly at
the whole charismatic movement."
He said that Chtristians must have
more to their faith than just emotion.
We must learn what is good from the
charismatic movement and remove that
which is bad. We can't let fads deter­mine
our faith, he said, but we must
base our faith on what is in the Bible.
More than anything else, Dr. Stein
said, we want to teach each student
how to let the Holy Spirit be more
meaningful in his life.
Small groups within the class are do­ing
independent research on such topics
as faith healing, tongues, demon exor­cism,
sanctification and the history of
the charismatic movement.
Freshman Doug Johnson, a student
in the class, said that he felt the in­dependent
research was very valuable,
but there were weaknesses to the class.
"I went into the class looking for a
Biblical view on the concept of a second
spiritual experience subsequent to sal­vation.
I think I've gotten this, but in
some ways, I think we have been attack­ing
a stereotype of Pentecostalism,"
Johnson said. "Weare getting criteria
to judge Pentecostal meetings, and that's
good, but the pentecostal question goes
deeper."
Another student said, "I've gained a
new awareness from the course that
Baptists are not the only Christians, In
fact, some people we may disagree with
theologically may be better Christians
than we are."
Tom Weitzel said, "We're not really
studying the role of the Holy Spirit. It's
more a study of Pentecostalism."
Most students agreed, however, that
they were learning things they hadn't
known before about certain aspects of
the Holy Spirit.
((atbolic colleges, catbebrals
become teacbers for class
by Bev Olsson
Professors and students are learning
together about the meaning behind the
Catholic rites and ritual in the Interim
course Roman Catholicism' from Trent
to Vatican II. Dr. Lewis and Dr. Olsen
are instructing this class in the study
of Roman Catholicism. An exciting as­pect
of the course is visitation to various
types of Catholic establishments. Before
the class is completed eight such places
will be invaded by Bethel students. A
tour through St. Paul's magnificent Ca­t'
1edral gave students a feeling of awe­some
worship. Joyce Anderson stated
that talking to the different Church
officials has given her a new respect
for some of them. "I really respect the
nuns," she said. "Their dedication is
unbelievable, everything they do is on
a voluntary basis, and they gain nothing
personally. I had preconceived ideas
about nuns. I thought it was stupid to
cut themselves off from society. Now
I understand why they do it. I respect
them, but I still don't agree."
As interesting as the visits to St.
Paul's Cathedral and to the different
Catholic Colleges were, neither masses
nor classes were in session at the time.
Students didn't find the opportunity to
talk with the people involved until the
visit to the parochial school. Many of
the students agree that so far, this has
been the most informative trip. They
spoke to a variety of people - the
principal, the superintendent, teachers,
and students. They saw people living
everyday lives in a religious situation
different from their own. Melody Lied­strand
said, "I found that the school
was very open. The teachers didn't have
to be Catholics and if the kids weren't
Catholic, they didn't have to take the
religious courses. In fact, it was hardly
Catholic at all." Tim Trude noticed this
as well. "Some of them thought we
were an education class," Tim com­mented,"
and they weren't trying to im­press
us with their religion just be­cause
we were observing it."
The Bethel students will also visit a
convent, a Catholic hospital, Newman
Center on the University Campus, and
a high mass at a local parish.
The course has been a real learning
experience for many students. As Mel
Liedstrand commented, "I have gained
more respect for Catholics. I used to
think a person had to be unintelligent
to believe all that, but seeing the his­tory
behind the Catholic church makes
it really fit in. I can understand how
members would believe it, but I still
don't understand how they get around
verses like Ephesians 2:8,9."
Minnesota Spanish
culture studied by
Casa Hispanica
been making many other field trips.
They have visited the homes of both
Guatemalan and Argentine families,
seen the International Institute in St.
Paul, and attended a lecture on bull­fighting
at the University.
"Being in this course you sure can't
complain about not getting off campus,"
one student remar-ked.
Virginia McKean explained why she
liked the course. "It's really great to be
able to compare the culture of these
Latin peoples to ours and see the dif­ferences.
And it's interesting to find
out how we look to them - -cold, never
saying good morning when we greet
each other or goodbye when we leave,"
Virgina said.
by Judy Harrington
The KenQsha apartment house on the
corner of Twelfth and Harmon in Min­neapolis
is an inconspicuous Qld red
brick building. Only a handful of poople
in the Twin City a,rea know its in­terior
is lighted by Latin warmth and
hospitality.
Miss Lillian Ryberg, Associate Profes­sor
of Spanish here at Bethel, got tQ
know these people "through a gradual
series of events that led to getting to
know them quite well. Most of the fam­ilies
in the apartments are related in
some way, ,and have -come from Cuba
in ,the last several years. I knew the
first member of their family to come
over and eventually came to have mOore
contacts with them through the Sal­vation
Army in Minneapolis and the
Spanish Church at Bethlehem Baptist,
led by Pastor Antonio DeParis."
A week ago Tuesday, on Jan. 11, she
brought her Casa Hispanica class wtth
her to the Abreu's for a typical Cuban
meal and to learn about Latin cooking.
The result was also a lesson in people.
The Abreu apartment was old and
too small for so many curious, students,
but tastefully furnished and decorated.
The kitchen, where students were taken
first, was particularly attr,active with
its Spanish red stain on the woodwork
and its black trim.
"Most of these people came over here
with nothing but themselves and the
clothes on their 'backs," Miss Ryberg
said later. "Back home they were lead­ers
in their communities - respecj.